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آمبرین زمان

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An Iraqi Kurdish woman waves a flag bearing the portrait of the founder of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan as people gather at Freedom Park to listen to an audio message by the jailed leader in Sulaimaniyah, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on Feb. 27, 2025.

حزب العمال الكردستاني ينهي حربًا استمرت 40 عامًا ضد تركيا، ويتعهد بمواصلة السعي لتحقيق الحقوق الكردية

Amberin Zaman

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Ahmad al-Hayes (L) is seen with interim Syrian Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra. — X

الحكومة السورية الجديدة تعين أمير حرب خاضع لعقوبات أمريكية لقيادة فرقة عسكرية رئيسية

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he addresses a speech during the Justice and Development Party (AKP), as part of the 8th Ordinary Grand Congress at the Ankara Arena in Ankara, on Feb. 23, 2025.

أردوغان ينتقد الأكراد السوريين بسبب دعواتهم إلى اللامركزية، لكنه يحافظ على لهجته المعتدلة

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A woman reaches to light her candle from another held by deacon during the Christmas morning mass at the Syriac Orthodox Church of Virgin Mary in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on Dec. 25, 2022.

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بالنسبة للأقليات في سوريا، تظل الحياة في ظل حكم الأكراد هي الخيار الأكثر أمانًا

Demonstrators gather outside the thermal power station in Nasiriyah in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province to demand the construction of a new station for their region, to allow the province to deal with the chronic power cuts and palliate electricity outage that weight on the daily life, on Sept. 4, 2024.

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تركيا توقف بيع الكهرباء للعراق بعد فشل بغداد في سداد فاتورة بقيمة 70 مليون دولار

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Raqqa

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الحياة الليلية تهز الرقة مع سعي زعماء الإسلاميين في سوريا إلى السلطة

Women are seen walking at the Roj Camp in northeast Syria, on April 8, 2025.

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أكراد سوريا يقولون إن تخفيضات ترامب للمساعدات تغذي التطرف في معسكرات داعش

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A picture taken on Oct. 17, 2017, shows excess flammable gasses burning from gas flares at the Havana oil field, west of the multiethnic northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

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العراق يطلب تعويضات إضافية من تركيا ويمنع إعادة فتح خط أنابيب النفط الكردي

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Demonstrators wave flags as they face-off with police during protests in front of Istanbul's famous Aquaduct on on March 24, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey.

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حزب الشعب الجمهوري المعارض الرئيسي في تركيا يسعى إلى استمرار الاحتجاجات على اعتقال إمام أوغلو

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University student wave Turkish national flags as they gather in protest in Besiktas district in Istanbul on March 20, 2025 following Istanbul metropolitan Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's detention over a corruption probe.

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الاقتصاد التركي المتعثر ضحية مبكرة لاعتقال إمام أوغلو بتهم الإرهاب

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Supporters of Istanbul metropolitan mayor Ekrem Imamoglu hold a poster of him as they demonstrate outside Istanbul townhall against his detention over a corruption probe in Istanbul on March 19, 2025.

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قبضة أردوغان الدائمة على تركيا مضمونة باعتقال رئيس بلدية إسطنبول

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People ride on a motorcycle as thick smoke rises from an oil extracting facility targeted by Turkish shelling near Syria's northeastern border with Turkey in the Qahtaniyah countryside in the far northeast corner of Hasakeh province on Oct. 25, 2024.

قوات سوريا الديمقراطية تقول إن الغارة التركية قتلت 9 أشخاص بينما تدرس أنقرة السلام مع حزب العمال الكردستاني

Amberin Zaman

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