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Seda Taşkın – Kars The sunflower harvest season has begun in the Arpaçay district of the city of Kars (Qers) in Turkey.Read More
Ateş Alpar Documentary filmmaker Bingöl Elmas is a member of the jury for the 57th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in Turkey. MedyaNews talked to Bingöl Elmas about the role of documentary cinema, social consciousness and collective memory, gender equality and the difficulties of being a female director in cinema.Read More
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – İstanbul ‘Killed, but not dead’ Journalists struggling for a free media alongside millions of Kurds have been commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of prominent Kurdish intellectual, Musa Anter.Read More
Sultan Eylem Keleş / İstanbul As the conflict in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region between Azerbaijan and Armenia has entered its fifth day, there have been provocations against Armenians in Turkey. MedyaNews interviewed Rober Koptaş, a member of the Armenian community in Turkey. He expresses the concerns that other Armenians share in Turkey.Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraq On Thursday 24 September 2020, the Ministry of Culture in the Kurdistan Regional Government in southern Kurdistan issued a formal statement regarding the manner in which books from now on will receive permission for publication in the region.Read More
Isiyan Kamo Ronahî Azad, a young medical worker from Cataluna, has been working in a hospital from the Northern and Eastern Syria region for several months now.Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraq A survey conducted by a group of academics in KR-I shows that 81% of youth in Kurdistan would be willing to flee abroad to escape poor job prospects, corruption and injustice.Read More
Uğur Deniz – İstanbul Osman Şiban and Servet Turgut were thrown from a military helicopter on 11 September. This incident has been proved with hospital records and eyewitness statements. Upon waking in intensive care, Şiban’s first sentence was “They threw us”. This incident has been overlooked in Turkey – but what does the silence mean? […]Read More
