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آمبرین زمان

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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

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Raqqa

Feature

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

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

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

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

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.

Analysis

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

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

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.

Analysis

الاقتصاد التركي المتعثر ضحية مبكرة لاعتقال إمام أوغلو بتهم الإرهاب

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

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.

Analysis

قبضة أردوغان الدائمة على تركيا مضمونة باعتقال رئيس بلدية إسطنبول

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

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

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

US President Donald Trump (L) and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) pose for the family photo at the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, northeast of London on Dec. 4, 2019.

أردوغان يبحث الحرب بين روسيا وأوكرانيا وسوريا في أول اتصال رسمي مع ترامب

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

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 يقول إنه مستعد للقاء الأكراد الذين يتوسطون في السلام مع حزب العمال الكردستاني

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) and SDF leader Mazloum Kobane sign an agreement in Damascus on March 10, 2025.

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أكراد سوريا يحققون فوزا كبيرا بعد أن صافح الشرع كوباني لإنقاذ نفسه

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) meets with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) in Tehran, on July 19, 2022.

Analysis

إيران تشعر بالقلق من مبادرات تركيا تجاه الأكراد ودورها المتزايد في سوريا والعراق

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture