Kurds
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Kurdish women living in Iran face discrimination for their ethnicity as well as their gender. The photographer Keiwan Fatehi spoke to those who left their homeland claiming oppression, lack of rights or fear for their safety and joined the peshmerga military• Fatehi is an Iranian Kurdish photographer based in Iraq. These images are part of his Gender and national apartheid series with Middle East ImagesGallery
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4 out of 5 stars.Documentary collects sequence of interviews with prisoners, not all repentant, alongside footage of war-blasted Syrian Kurdistan
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Brother of Iraqi teenager lost in Channel crossing seeks UK investigation into drownings
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Ex-president interrupted briefing to ask why he should ‘give a fuck’ about Kurds amid US troop withdrawal, Adam Kinzinger writes
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Matt Broomfield, who has worked in Kurdish-controlled north-east Syria, had his phone and laptop seized when he was questioned last month
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Multiple rounds of sanctions mark anniversary of 22-year-old’s death in custody of Iran’s ‘morality police’
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Survivors and witnesses bring case to human rights council over 2021 attack killing eight people
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Foreign minister condemns ‘vile protest’ outside Stockholm mosque ahead of meeting in Brussels to discuss application
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Editorial: As he embarks on a third decade in power, Turkey’s president will continue to use sweeping powers to divide and rule
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One inmate became the voice of the men locked up on Manus. Behrouz Boochani and Ben Doherty look back at the risks he took to get this story to the world
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As voters in Turkey prepare to go to the polls, anger over the government's response to the earthquakes in February is widespread. More than 50,000 people have died and millions more displaced. But it has happened in a region that has already experienced years of discrimination under President Erdoğan.
The Guardian's video team joined Yeter Erel Tuma who works with children living in a Kurdish majority province. She has witnessed the civil unrest impacting families here, and now volunteers bringing aid to those devastated by the earthquake.14:46 -
The British photographer documented stunning architectural gems in Iraq – many since destroyed by Islamic StateGallery
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A moment of weakness on TV has done nothing for the president’s strongman image in a country already tiring of authoritarian rule
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Parliament in Ankara passes bill allowing membership after second-to-last objector, Hungary, voted in favour
‘Love is the answer’: the Kurdish refugees finding art and healing in a country that imprisoned them