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آمبرین زمان

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Iraq's new first lady and Iraqi-Kurdish politician and writer Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed receives a bouquet of flowers during her husband's inauguration and handover ceremony as the new Iraqi president at al-Salam Palace in the capital Baghdad on Oct. 17, 2022.

سيدة العراق الأولى تنتقد الهجوم التركي على حزب العمال الكردستاني في إقليم كردستان

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

The protest movement leader Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan participates during the rally demanding the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's resignation over land transfer to neighboring Azerbaijan, outside the government building in central Yerevan on May 30, 2024.

Interview

رئيس الأساقفة يسعى إلى الإطاحة برئيس الوزراء الأرمني بسبب تنازلات لتركيا، وأذربيجان تتراجع لكن لا تخرج

This combination of file photographs created on July 7, 2024, shows Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) in Ankara on May 29, 2023, and Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on July 16, 2023.

Analysis

بينما يسعى أردوغان إلى التودد إلى الأسد، هل المصالحة بين تركيا وسوريا مجرد خطاب أم حقيقة؟

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Fighters of PKK inside Matin mountain north of Dohuk in a temporary base after leaving Turkish territory, on June 22, 2013.

Analysis

بغداد صامتة مع تحرك تركيا بشكل أعمق ضد مقاتلي حزب العمال الكردستاني في شمال العراق

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Turkey's defender Merih Demiral makes a controversial hand gesture as he celebrates scoring his team's second goal during the UEFA Euro 2024 round of 16 football match between Austria and Turkey at Leipzig Stadium, Leipzig, Germany, July 2, 2024.

أردوغان يتوجه إلى ألمانيا وسط خلاف حول التحية "العنصرية" للاعب كرة القدم التركي

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Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

KAREN MINASYAN/AFP via Getty Images

دفع الولايات المتحدة لأذربيجان وتركيا لجعل السلام مع أرمينيا معركة شاقة

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

A stray dog sits in front of the Hagia Grand Mosque, in Istanbul, on May 30, 2024.

تواجه كلاب الشوارع في تركيا عمليات إعدام جماعية بينما يروج أردوغان لمشروع قانون القتل الرحيم

Amberin Zaman

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EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images

Analysis

مبيعات النفط الأذربيجانية لإسرائيل وسط الصراع في غزة تضغط على أردوغان في تركيا

Amberin Zaman

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Syrian Kurdish women walk past an election campaign banner in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on June 6, 2024.

الأكراد السوريون يؤجلون الانتخابات المحلية وسط استنكار أمريكي وتهديدات تركية

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Supporters of the Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) take part in the Kurdish celebration of Nowruz (aka Noruz or Newroz), the New Year of the Persian calendar, in Istanbul on March 17, 2024.

غضب بعد أن حكمت محكمة تركية على رئيس بلدية كردي بالسجن 20 عامًا

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples DEM Party attend a rally for the Turkish Municipal elections to be held on March 31, in Esenyurt Square, in Istanbul on February 25, 2024. (Photo by YASIN AKGUL / AFP) (Photo by YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images)

المعارضة التركية تقف إلى جانب الأكراد بعد سجن رئيس بلدية كردي

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

A picture shows the Armenian car park in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 13, 2023. When bulldozers rolled into Jerusalem's Old City to start work on an Israeli settlement that would build a luxury hotel atop a fourth of the historic Armenian quarter, residents rapidly mobilized.

داخل مخطط الاستيلاء على الأراضي "المقدسة" في الحي الأرمني بالقدس

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture