KURDISTAN: L’ESERCITO IRACHENO ASSEDIA IL CAMPO DI MAXMUR PER CHIUDERLO CON UNA RECINZIONE. LA POPOLAZIONE RESISTE https://www.radiondadurto.org/2023/05/22/kurdistan-lesercito-iracheno-assedia-il-campo-di-maxmur-per-chiuderlo-con-una-recinzione-la-popolazione-resiste/ #confederalismodemocratico #Kurdistaniracheno #esercitoiracheno #INTERNAZIONALI #kurdistan #maxmur #basur #News #Iraq #krg

Closure of the #Semalka border crossing complicates the humanitarian situation

➡️On May 11 #KDP closed the border crossing between North & East #Syria & #KRG

➡️ This border is the only way to get into #AANES, get out, & bring humanitarian aid supplies into the region

Autonomous Administration of North & East #Syria:

📢 “Our people should know that the #KDP wants to break our will and impose its power by using the border crossing against us.”

➡️ KDP did not allow the passage of injured locals through, leading to the death of some of them

RT by @amina_aziz_: Vor allem dient es der Legitimation weiterer Angriffe auf die #KRG. Dieser Tage müssen #Erbil und Co den kurdischen Luftraum sehr gut bewachen. #IRGCTerrorists #jinjiyanazadi #IranProtests2023 • Quelle: https://tw.artemislena.eu/awa_awin/status/1620858877230342145#m

#Turkey / N. #Iraq 🇹🇷🇮🇶: PKK/HPG recently released a video of their attack on TAF outpost in #Kurdistan Reg Gov (#KRG) on September 22.

The attack seems to be carried out with a 9M113 'Konkurs' ATGM (sourced from #Syria).
The group used these ATGMs frequently and efficiently throughout 2022.

N. #Iraq/#Turkey 🇮🇶🇹🇷: #PKK/HPG displayed seized materials from TAF/TSK in Metina, #Kurdistan Reg Gov (#KRG):

An MPT-55K rifle, MPT-55 rifles, a rare KNT-76 sniper rifle, 40mm TBA-6R1 'Tamburlu Bombaatar' launcher, Korean K200 & HW921 grenades, Aselsan Mini-TWS thermal scope.

#Turkey / Northern #Iraq 🇹🇷🇮🇶: #PKK recently released a video of a rifle taken from Turkish Forces in #Kurdistan Reg Gov (#KRG) on May 26.

The video shows another Turkish MPT-55 rifle with Ser. No "T0624-19BM10204".
Mainly, TAF seems to be partially failed in recovering these rifles.

N. #Iraq / #Turkey 🇮🇶🇹🇷: A recently posted photo of a fighter of HPG (armed wing of #PKK), likely in #Kurdistan Reg Gov (#KRG).

The fighter is seemingly holding a Delta Defense Group 'D.D.G-4 Carbin' (obscure M4A1 patterned rifle) with Dedal Venator 600-series thermal scope.

#Turkey / N. #Iraq 🇹🇷🇮🇶: #PKK/HPG released a video of their raid on Turkish Forces on November 30 in #Kurdistan Reg Gov (#KRG); killing several soldiers.

Fighters seemingly used an AKS-74U carbine with Dedal Venator 600-series thermal scope, M4(A1)-pattern carbine and at least two hand grenades.

#Turkey / N. #Iraq 🇹🇷🇮🇶: PKK/HPG recently released a video from #Kurdistan Regional Government (#KRG).

In the video, 2 PKK militants with common AKM & AKMS assault rifles show the body of a killed Turkish soldier and captured materials: 5.56x45mm MPT-55 mags, ammo, vest etc...

N. #Iraq / #Turkey 🇮🇶🇹🇷: PKK/HPG released videos of their attacks on Turkish soldiers in #Kurdistan Reg Gov (#KRG) on Aug 28 and Sep 13.

The attacks were likely out with M4A1 or/and M16A4 rifles equipped with Pulsar thermal scopes (Apex XD50/XD75 or Trail 2 XP38/50).

RT @dersi4m@twitter.com

Update: According to first reports the Turkish war planes targeted a group of civilians. At least one civilian has been killed and two others have been wounded (@kurmancirojnews@twitter.com) #TwitterKurds #KRG

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dersi4m/status/1598664740896755713

#Iraq 🇮🇶: Asaish in #Sulaymaniyah (#Kurdistan Reg Gov, #KRG) captured large quantity of weapons allegedly planned to be smuggled into #Iran recently.

AKM(S)/Type 56 rifles, East German MPi-KMS-72, Iraqi Tabuk rifles, Czechoslovak vz. 58 P rifle, pistols, ammo etc... were seized.

#Iraq 🇮🇶: Asaish in #Sulaymaniyah (#Kurdistan Reg Gov, #KRG) captured large quantity of weapons allegedly planned to be smuggled into #Iran recently.

AKM(S)/Type 56 rifles, East German MPi-KMS-72, Iraqi Tabuk rifles, Czechoslovak vz. 58 P rifle, pistols, ammo etc... were seized.

N. #Iraq/#Turkey 🇮🇶🇹🇷: HPG/#PKK released a video of recently captured materials from #TAF/#TSK in #Kurdistan Reg Gov (#KRG).

Militants seemingly seized MPT-55 and MPT-55K rifles, a rare CSI L540-3 grenade launcher, Sarsilmaz Kilinc 2000 Mega pistol, Aselsan A940 sights etc..

RT by @DastanJasim: Since this morning, coinciding with the Iraqi Prime Minister's visit to Tehran and the #IRGC's threats to attack the #Kurdistan Region, U.S. warplanes have been flying continuously over #KRG cities.
#TwitterKurds • Source: https://nitter.sethforprivacy.com/goliammar/status/1597520786138738691#m

N. #Iraq / #Turkey 🇮🇶🇹🇷: PKK/HPG released video* of their attack on Turkish Forces (TSK) in #Metina, #Kurdistan Reg Gov (#KRG) on Sep 21.

The attack was carried out with 9M113 Konkurs missile (ATGM) with 9P135M launcher (sourced from #Syria) —looks to be rather efficient.

*NSFW

RT by @DastanJasim: Since November 20, the #IRGC ground force has been sending armored, artillery, and logistics units to various cities in Kurdistan. Senior officials of Iran have threatened to attack the #KRG if the armed forces of the #Kurdistan parties are not disarmed. • Source: http://nitter.notraxx.ch/goliammar/status/1596111745638051840#m

Tonight, #Kurdistan is under attack. In #Mehabad , #Rojhelat . the Islamic Republic of #Iran is trying to repress the feminist uprising sparked by the murder of #MahsaAmini .

In #Rojava and #Başûrê , in an effort to shore up his falling polling numbers over the bad economy, #Erdogan (#RTE) is again "wagging the dog" to attack Kurds and maintain his electoral alliance with the war-mongering Turkish nationalist #MHP . Erdogan is once again bombing #Kobani , the city that defied ISIS. Erdogan is once again attacking the #SDF, #YPG and YPJ that defeated ISIS in #Raqqa and liberated the trapped Yazidi people at #Sinjar. In #Bakur, Erdogan continues his repression of the feminist , socialist , pro-Kurdish #HDP .

Its difficult to hear dissident, Kurdish and women's voices when autocratic states wage war against Kurds, women and dissidents. #Twitter, for all its faults, was one of the few places where regular information could be more easily found.

While folks are rightly listing their grievances with Twitter, and Twitter has bent to autocratic demands by banning dissident information from appearing in certain countries and banning some accounts, this is an even bigger problem with Facebook and Reddit.

Facebook's 2nd highest executive buckled to Erdogan during Turkey's invasion of Afrin, by banning the YPG's page with its half a million followers. We have the receipts:

https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-facebook-execs-silenced-an-enemy-of-turkey-to-prevent-a-hit-to-their-business

On a smaller scale, Reddit recently banned /r/rojava , a news subreddit active since 2014 on spurious claims of "violence". It had 34,458 subscribers. I was one of its senior redditors. Thousands of posts about Rojava with detailed information that can not be found easily anywhere else. Unique English translations of articles in Arabic or Kurmanji from websites that no longer exist, or messages that have been erased in social media.

/r/rojava had been brigaded before by Erdogan's AKTrolls who would manipulate the algorithmic moderation to temporarily block posts or users. We had been able to overcome those past attempts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK_Trolls

I highly suspect that Jessica Ashooh, former consultant to the Kurdistan Regional Government ( #KRG) , former Deputy Director, Middle East Strategy Task Force for the #AtlanticCouncil and currently the Senior Director of Policy at Reddit would have been consulted and approve of the banning of htttps://www.reddit.com/r/rojava

Ashooh would have been aware of it as a source and the differences between it compared to /r/syriancivilwar and /r/kurdistan . The speed by which https://www.reddit.com/r/aanes (a new subreddit that had no post that could even be construed as discussion violence and was tightly moderated to share articles about the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria--AANES ) suggest the ban on it and /r/rojava were political motivated.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaashooh/details/experience/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkgfBHjuEAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOVqOrpiHzM

https://ahvalnews.com/united-states/atlantic-councils-turkish-links-cast-shadow-over-washington-think-tank-industry

It will be some time before a decentralized federation of social media and news sites will be able to gain the reach that the walled garden sites like Twitter have. Its is absolutely essential that a decentralized federation of social media and news sites does grow to have that sort of reach. Otherwise, dissident voices will always be subject to repression by the collusion of profiteering billionaires and autocrat tyrants.

So, if you want to help with that growing that decentralized communication... maybe boost this post?

( If I'm wrong about Ashooh banning /r/rojava , she also has the power to unban it. )

P.S. This post is way to long to have ever appeared on Twitter, so thats pretty cool.

Tonight, #Kurdistan is under attack. In #Mehabad , #Rojhelat . the Islamic Republic of #Iran is trying to repress the feminist uprising sparked by the murder of #MahsaAmini . In #Rojava and #Başûrê , in an effort to shore up his falling polling numbers over the bad economy, #Erdogan (#RTE) is again "wagging the dog" to attack Kurds and maintain his electoral alliance with the war-mongering Turkish nationalist #MHP . Erdogan is once again bombing #Kobani , the city that defied ISIS. Erdogan is once again attacking the #SDF, #YPG and YPJ that defeated ISIS in #Raqqa In #Bakur, and liberated the trapped Yazidi people at #Sinjar.
In #Bakur, Erdogan continues his repression of the feminist , socialist , pro-Kurdish #HDP .

Its difficult to hear dissident, Kurdish and women's voices when autocratic states wage war against Kurds, women and dissidents. #Twitter, for all its faults, was one of the few places where regular information could be more easily found.

While folks are rightly listing their grievances with Twitter, and Twitter has bent to autocratic demands by banning dissident information from appearing in certain countries and banning some accounts, this is an even bigger problem with Facebook and Reddit.

Facebook's 2nd highest executive buckled to Erdogan during Turkey's invasion of Afrin, by banning the YPG's page with its half a million followers. We have the receipts:

https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-facebook-execs-silenced-an-enemy-of-turkey-to-prevent-a-hit-to-their-business

On a smaller scale, Reddit recently banned /r/rojava , a news subreddit active since 2014 on spurious claims of "violence". It had 34,458 subscribers. I was one of its senior redditors. Thousands of posts about Rojava with detailed information that can not be found easily anywhere else. Unique English translations of articles in Arabic or Kurmanji from websites that no longer exist, or messages that have been erased in social media.

/r/rojava had been brigaded before by Erdogan's AKTrolls who would manipulate the algorithmic moderation to temporarily block posts or users. We had been able to overcome those past attempts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK_Trolls

I highly suspect that Jessica Ashooh, former consultant to the Kurdistan Regional Government ( #KRG) , former Deputy Director, Middle East Strategy Task Force for the #AtlanticCouncil and currently the Senior Director of Policy at Reddit would have been consulted and approve of the banning of htttps://www.reddit.com/r/rojava

Ashooh would have been aware of it as a source and the differences between it compared to /r/syriancivilwar and /r/kurdistan . The speed by which https://www.reddit.com/r/aanes (a new subreddit that had no post that could even be construed as discussion violence and was tightly moderated to share articles about the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria--AANES ) suggest the ban on it and /r/rojava were political motivated.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaashooh/details/experience/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkgfBHjuEAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOVqOrpiHzM

https://ahvalnews.com/united-states/atlantic-councils-turkish-links-cast-shadow-over-washington-think-tank-industry

It will be some time before a decentralized federation of social media and news sites will be able to gain the reach that the walled garden sites like Twitter have. Its is absolutely essential that a decentralized federation of social media and news sites does grow to have that sort of reach. Otherwise, dissident voices will always be subject to repression by the collusion of profiteering billionaires and autocrat tyrants.

So, if you want to help with that growing that decentralized communication... maybe boost this post?

( If I'm wrong about Ashooh banning /r/rojava , she also has the power to unban it. )

P.S. This post is way to long to have ever appeared on Twitter, so thats pretty cool.

Tonight, #Kurdistan is under attack. In #Mehabad , #Rojhelat . the Islamic Republic of #Iran is trying to repress the feminist uprising sparked by the murder of #MahsaAmini . In #Rojava and #Başûrê , in an effort to shore up his falling polling numbers over the bad economy, #Erdogan (#RTE) is again "wagging the dog" to attack Kurds and maintain his electoral alliance with the war-mongering Turkish nationalist #MHP . Erdogan is once again bombing #Kobani , the city that defied ISIS. Erdogan is once again attacking the #SDF, #YPG and YPJ that defeated ISIS in #Raqqa In #Bakur, and liberated the trapped Yazidi people at #Sinjar.
In #Bakur, Erdogan continues his repression of the feminist , socialist , pro-Kurdish #HDP .

Its difficult to hear dissident, Kurdish and women's voices when autocratic states wage war against Kurds, women and dissidents. #Twitter, for all its faults, was one of the few places where regular information could be more easily found.

While folks are rightly listing their grievances with Twitter, and Twitter has bent to autocratic demands by banning dissident information from appearing in certain countries and banning some accounts, this is an even bigger problem with Facebook and Reddit.

Facebook's 2nd highest executive buckled to Erdogan during Turkey's invasion of Afrin, by banning the YPG's page with its half a million followers. We have the receipts:

https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-facebook-execs-silenced-an-enemy-of-turkey-to-prevent-a-hit-to-their-business

On a smaller scale, Reddit recently banned /r/rojava , a news subreddit active since 2014 on spurious claims of "violence". It had 34,458 subscribers. I was one of its senior redditors. Thousands of posts about Rojava with detailed information that can not be found easily anywhere else. Unique English translations of articles in Arabic or Kurmanji from websites that no longer exist, or messages that have been erased in social media.

/r/rojava had been brigaded before by Erdogan's AKTrolls who would manipulate the algorithmic moderation to temporarily block posts or users. We had been able to overcome those past attempts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK_Trolls

I highly suspect that Jessica Ashooh, former consultant to the Kurdistan Regional Government ( #KRG) , former Deputy Director, Middle East Strategy Task Force for the #AtlanticCouncil and currently the Senior Director of Policy at Reddit would have been consulted and approve of the banning of htttps://www.reddit.com/r/rojava

Ashooh would have been aware of it as a source and the differences between it compared to /r/syriancivilwar and /r/kurdistan . The speed by which https://www.reddit.com/r/aanes (a new subreddit that had no post that could even be construed as discussion violence and was tightly moderated to share articles about the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria--AANES ) suggest the ban on it and /r/rojava were political motivated.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaashooh/details/experience/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkgfBHjuEAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOVqOrpiHzM

https://ahvalnews.com/united-states/atlantic-councils-turkish-links-cast-shadow-over-washington-think-tank-industry

It will be some time before a decentralized federation of social media and news sites will be able to gain the reach that the walled garden sites like Twitter have. Its is absolutely essential that a decentralized federation of social media and news sites does grow to have that sort of reach. Otherwise, dissident voices will always be subject to repression by the collusion of profiteering billionaires and autocrat tyrants.

So, if you want to help with that growing that decentralized communication... maybe boost this post?

( If I'm wrong about Ashooh banning /r/rojava , she also has the power to unban it. )

P.S. This post is way to long to have ever appeared on Twitter, so thats pretty cool.