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Overly Friendly Neighbours: Iran’s Influence in Iraqi Kurdistan – Niqash – What plans do Iranian diplomats have for Iraqi Kurdistan? Recently there have been high level visits from both sides and locals say the Iranians, a major trading partner for the Kurdish, are meddling in politics there too…
Turkey’s War on Journalists – The Atlantic – The October 22 report on Turkey issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CJP) is getting lots of attention, and rightly so. Amid the growing clamor over Turkey’s media crackdown, the CPJ slammed Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government for jailing (by its count) 76 journalists, 61 of whom are in prison as a direct result of their writing or reporting, mainly on Kurdish issues. …
Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Turkey’s elected sultan or an Islamic democrat? – The Guardian – Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in bullish mood. Hailed by supporters as the country’s greatest statesman since the republic’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey’s prime minister was addressing a recent congress of his neo-Islamist Justice and Development party (AKP)…