MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: No jobs, Turkey-PKK conflict drive Duhok youth onto road to Europe

Hunar Rasheed RUDAW- SHILADZE, Kurdistan Region – High unemployment and the conflict between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have driven more than 500 people out of their homes in the Duhok towns of Shiladze and Derelok and onto the risky roads to Europe.

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MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: Poisoning of PUK Leaders: All We Know So Far

30.10.21 ERBIL — Several senior leaders of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) are confirmed to have been poisoned by “deadly agents” as an internal rift in the highest ranks of the party deepens. As the events unfold, more leaders of the Kurdish party rushed to Germany for medical tests and, in some cases, treatments.

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MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: VON DER OSTEN NACH WESTEN: Kurdistan’s unemployed youth pull up stakes, move to Europe

Khazan Jangiz RUDAW – 29-10-2021 – ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Kurdish youth, frustrated with lack of employment prospects, are among thousands of migrants hoping to find a better life abroad by taking risky journeys that too often end in tragedy.

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 MESOP MIDEAST WATCH KURDISTAN IRAQ: MURDEROUS BARZANI FAMILY

 Kamal Chomani

28-10-2021 – KRG PM Masrour Barzani was officially accused by the KRG/PUK Intelligence branch of being behind assassination of young journalist Sardasht Osman in 2010. Sardasht wrote a satirical blog where he criticised corruption and nepotism in the KRG and within the Barzani family.

 

Winthrop Rodgers

Sardasht Osman, who was abducted from a bus stop outside his university in #Erbil in 2010 and murdered, is one of the 18 journalists from #Iraq featured on @pressfreedom’s 2021 Impunity Index because there has been no justice in his case. #TwitterKurds https://cpj.org/reports/2021/10/killers-of-journalists-still-get-away-with-murder/

 

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MESOP MIDEAST : BIG BLOW CONTRA IRAN ! – Sadr Signals of New Measures to End Neighbor’s Interferences in Iraq’s Affairs

25-10-2021 ERBIL BAS NEWS — Iraqi Shia cleric and the leader of Sadrist Movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, once again warned against any interferences in his country’s internal affairs, saying the next government will take the necessary measures to address the issue.

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MESOP MIDEAST: WINE & NO ISLAM / Archaeologists in Iraq Find Ancient Assyrian Wine Press, Carvings

2021-10-25 (AFP) — Archaeologists in Iraq revealed Sunday their discovery of a large-scale wine factory from the rule of the Assyrian kings 2,700 years ago, along with stunning monumental rock-carved royal reliefs.

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MESOP MIDEAST WATCH:Irak zwischen Chaos & einer vom iranischen Einfluss unabhängigen Regierung

HOSSAM SADEK – 25 Okt 2021

Wie wird es nach den Wahlen im Irak weitergehen? Am 10. Oktober dieses Jahres wählten die Iraker zum fünften Mal seit dem Sturz des Regimes von Saddam Hussein im Jahr 2003 ein neues Parlament. Die Ergebnisse unterscheiden sich deutlich von früheren Wahlgängen, spiegeln große Veränderungen in der öffentlichen Meinung wider und machen die politische Szenerie noch komplizierter. weiterlesen / click to continue

MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: BAATHIST BARZANI’S – KURDISTAN IRAQ

Four Kurdish activists, teachers sentenced to one year in prison in Iraqi Kurdistan

October 21, 2021 MESOP – Families, Kurdish activists, and MPs gathered outside an Erbil courthouse

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MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: Iraq after the parliamentary elections: more of the same?

Straight from the Source MIDDLE EAST POLICY COUNCIL

Medlir Mema, PhD Fellow, Middle East Policy Council 10/13/21

Iraqis have gone to the polls to elect their representatives amidst concerns about worsening economic conditions and social unrest.

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MESOP MIDEAST WATCH Kirkuk IRAQ) Oct 21, 2021 – A weekly brief of events  

On Tuesday, a senior security delegation led by Lieutenant-General Abdul Amir Al-Shammari, Deputy Commander of Joint Operations, visited Kirkuk.

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