Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
Project Exile: Criticizing Kurdish referendum leads to exile
By  • 28 June 2019
"He told me to either leave or they would beat me very terribly."  Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has long had a reputation in the West as a bastion of stability in a chaotic region plagued…
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After ISIS, the Kurdish question
By  • 15 February 2018
The Kurds have played a key role in the Syrian war. With U.S. military aid, a Kurdish militia called the YPG has done a large share of the ground fighting that has led to the…
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Dutch journalist expelled from Turkey seeks justice
By , • 15 February 2018
"They robbed me of my life, my job, so they're going to have to pay for it." Fréderike Geerdink had made a home for herself in Turkey. The Dutch journalist moved to Istanbul in 2006 to become a foreign…
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Turkey charges three press freedom activists
By  • 27 June 2016
Two Turkish journalists and an academic are facing up to 14 years in a Turkish prison on charges of disseminating “terrorist propaganda” by guest-editing a pro-Kurdish newspaper. Arrested June 20 were Sebnem Korur Fincanci, president…
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Iran releases Kurdish journalist jailed since 2013
By  • 15 December 2015
Iran has released an ethnic Kurdish journalist convicted two years ago on charges of collusion against the government and propaganda against the Islamic regime. Masoud Kordpour, a freelance journalist whose work had appeared on the…
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Turkey votes amid violence, media crackdown
By  • 29 October 2015
Turkish voters will go to the polls Nov. 1 amid a spasm of political violence and renewed conflict with Kurdish guerrillas. The vote also comes just weeks after the most deadly terrorist attack in Turkish…
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Opposition outlets shuttered in Iraqi Kurdistan
By  • 20 October 2015
Media outlets in cities across Iraqi Kurdistan have been raided in an effort to crack down on anti-government reporting amidst a political crisis in the region. Three of the offices of opposition channel KNN TV channel were raided…
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Kurds in conflict
By  • 10 September 2015
With more than 30 million people spread across Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, they are a minority everywhere they live. Now Kurdish groups are battling both the Islamic State  and forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad…
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Turkey again detains Dutch journalist covering Kurds
By  • 8 September 2015
A Dutch freelance journalist known for covering Kurdish issues has been detained by Turkish for the second time in a year. Frederike Geerdink, a freelance journalist who runs the blog Kurdish Matters, tweeted Sept. 6…
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