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Clampdown and grief as Iranians remember Mahsa Amini

Arab News 16 Sep 2023
Amjad Amini has told Persian media based outside Iran that he plans to hold a commemoration for his daughter in their hometown of Saqez in Kurdish-populated western Iran later Saturday. Outlets, including Prague-based Radio Farda, said he was summoned by intelligence officials after his announcement.
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Clampdown and grief as Iranians remember Mahsa Amini on first death anniversary

Dawn 16 Sep 2023
Amjad Amini has told Persian media based outside Iran that he plans to hold a commemoration for his daughter in their hometown of Saqez in Kurdish-populated western Iran later Saturday. Outlets, including Prague-based Radio Farda, said he was summoned by intelligence officials after his announcement.
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French soldier killed in Iraq died in four-hour gun battle with ISIS

The National 29 Aug 2023
A French soldier was killed in Iraq in a four-hour firefight during a raid on an ISIS hideout, security sources told Reuters on Tuesday ... Read More ... Mr Mazier's death comes a week after the death of another soldier, French military trainer Nicolas Latourte, during a joint military exercise with Kurdish forces, French radio station RTL reported ... ....
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Turkey: Erdoğan accused of "pre-election fraud" - A hospital without a concrete foundation

Greek City Times 27 Mar 2023
... Radio and Television Supreme Council, RTUK, announced on Tuesday ... The state agency that monitors and sanctions radio and television broadcasts sanctioned Halk TV for praising a convicted criminal, when jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas’ most recent book was discussed.
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Earthquake Deals Another Blow to Turkey's Struggling Local Media

Beijing News 03 Mar 2023
The earthquakes also silenced Diyarbakir-based Can Radio and TV for 24 days - the longest interruption Turkey's first Kurdish-language media outlet experienced in 28 years ... "There have been short interruptions because of the Kurdish broadcasts , but this is the first time we have ...
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Earthquake Deals Another Blow to Turkey’s Struggling Local Media

Voa News 02 Mar 2023
The earthquakes also silenced Diyarbakir-based Can Radio and TV for 24 days — the longest interruption Turkey’s first Kurdish-language media outlet experienced in 28 years ... “There have been short interruptions because of the [government limitations on] Kurdish broadcasts [in the ...
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The £7m fingers: how Jeff Beck became a guitar hero by saying no

New Statesman 12 Jan 2023
Jeff Beck died, aged 78, on 10 January 2023. This interview was first published in the 20 July 2016 issue of the New Statesman. Michelangelo and Da Vinci loathed each other. Ingres sneered at his chief rival, Delacroix. Picasso and Matisse all but ignored each other for 50 years ... His internet radio is tuned to Kurdish music ... “He likes to be left alone ... .
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The Farda Briefing: Iran Targets Opposition Kurdish Groups Abroad To Divert Attention From Protests At Home

Radio Free Europe 30 Nov 2022
Iran has carried out several missile and drone strikes on the bases of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based in northern Iraq in recent months ... Tehran has even gone as far as threatening to invade Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region, where the groups are based ... Iran has heaped pressure on Iraq to clamp down on the Kurdish groups.
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Iraqi Kurdish journalist wins International Press Freedom Awards

Arab News 18 Nov 2022
Iraqi Kurdish journalist Niyaz Abdullah ... Abdullah is a freelance journalist who regularly contributes to media outlets in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, including Radio Nawa, broadcaster NRT, and the news websites Westga, Zhyan News Network, Hawlati and Skurd, among others.
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Father Says Iranian Officials Pressured Him To Blame Kurdish Groups For Son's Death

Radio Free Europe 15 Nov 2022
Hassan Draoftadeh, the father of a 16-year-old boy who was killed last month in the western Iranian city of Piranshahr, says that security agents summoned him and pressured him to say his son was killed by Kurdish groups and not by the Iranian government ... Written by Ardeshir Tayebi based on an original story in Persian by RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
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Sweden to distance itself from Kurdish groups - Swedish FM

The New Arab 05 Nov 2022
Sweden's new government will distance itself from the Kurdish YPG militia as it tries to win Turkey's approval to join NATO, Sweden's foreign minister told Swedish Radio on Saturday. The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its political branch PYD are considered by Turkey extensions of ...
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Sweden to distance itself from Kurdish groups in bid to join NATO

FX Empire 05 Nov 2022
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s new government will distance itself from the Kurdish YPG militia as it tries to win Turkey’s approval to join NATO, Sweden’s foreign minister told Swedish Radio on Saturday. The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its political branch PYD are considered ...
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Rip It Up And Start Again: Special Interest’s Endure

The Quietus 03 Nov 2022
The consecutive tracks ‘Love Scene’, ‘Kurdish Radio’ and ‘My Displeasure’ are bound by wet textures and monolithic structures reminiscent of The Passion Of ... With this, Logout turns their attention inwards, offering earnest explorations of race (‘Kurdish Radio’), heartbreak, and sexuality (‘Love Scene’, which Logout frames with stage directions) ... ....
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Former Iranian president Rafsanjani’s daughter arrested for ‘inciting riots’

Arab News 29 Sep 2022
Before her arrest, Hashemi had said that the Iranian government has been referring to the protests for the past days as ‘riots’ and ‘sedition’ to suppress them, was used as the basis for her detention, news website Radio Farda reported. Amini, who is Kurdish, was visiting Tehran ...
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Special Interest – “Midnight Legend” (Feat. Mykki Blanco)

Stereogum 31 Aug 2022
The righteous and adventurous New Orleans punks Special Interest have been around for a while, and they released their debut album The Passion Of in 2020. But if you’ve been paying attention in the past few months, then you might’ve seen Special Interest really hitting their stride ... TRACKLIST. ... 06 “Kurdish Radio” ... TOUR DATES. ... 0.

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