By Associated Press / Jun.25.2018

The unrest signaled widespread unease after the U.S. decision to withdraw from Tehran's nuclear deal and restore sanctions on the country.

Nytimes.com | By Selahattin Demirtas

EDIRNE, Turkey — Turkey will vote in presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24. I am one of six candidates running for president. I am running from my prison cell.

Nytimes.com | By Carlotta Gall

ISTANBUL — Public schools are closing, on little or no notice, and being replaced by religious schools. Exams are scrapped by presidential whim. Tens of thousands of public teachers have been fired. Outside religious groups are teaching in schools, without parental consent.

Hdp.org.tr

The election speech of our Presidential candidate Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş was aired on the TRT News channel. The English translation of the speech as follows:

Economist.com

Selahattin Demirtas says the election is between "democracy and a dictatorship”

Dear friends, "Exile Voices" photographs by Syrian and Yazidi children from two camps in Iraqi Kurdistan will be exhibited in the Malta Arts Festival, along with photographs of Reza and Maltese photographers Charles Mifsud and Darrin Zammit Lupi.

We will hope to see many of you there in support of our students and the activities of Reza Visual Academy.

Kurdistan24.net

ERBIL – Turkish authorities recently banned nine translated books of various scholarly subjects about the Kurds, the owner of an Istanbul-based publishing house that released them told Kurdistan 24 on Sunday.

REUTERS | By Dmitry Zhdannikov | MAY 25, 2018

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Russian state oil major Rosneft signed a deal to help Kurdistan develop its gas reserves and build a gas pipeline, expanding the company’s dominance in the energy sector of Iraq’s semi-autonomous region.