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Rudaw.net
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - On the fourth anniversary of the Turkish occupation of Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain) in northeast Syria, there are now less than 50 Kurds left in the city which was home to around 80,000 Kurds less than two decades ago, according to an activist from the Kurdish city.
Stockholmcf.org
A high criminal court in southeastern Turkey has accepted an indictment of 21 people, the vast majority of whom are Kurdish journalists who have been in pre-trial detention since June 2022, Turkish Minute reported, citing the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA).
Iranwire.com
Slaughter has been the Iranian government’s only response to protest over the past 43 years. And even as the September 16 death of the 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, at the hands of Islamic Republic forces, triggered Iran’s current and unprecedented nationwide protest against more than four decades of tyranny, so too has the Iranian government again massacred men, women and children to hold on to power.
Forbes.com | Paul Iddon
In a mere week, Turkey attacked the United States’ Kurdish allies in Syria, endangered U.S. troops, and again doubled down on its contentious purchase of an advanced Russian air defense system. Such actions could further buttress already significant opposition in Washington to a proposed sale of modernized F-16s to Ankara.