From severe systemic discrimination + persecution in #Iraq and #Turkey, to weekly executions in #Iran, to mass displacement + ecocide in #Rojava - Kurds are still suffering political violence in their indigenous homeland today, and the world is watching.
My speech at @UNGeneva
🇩🇪 finance minister Lindner again demands a reduction in corporate taxes to boost growth. As we show in a recent paper, the empirical evidence does *not* support this: growth effects are regularly exaggerated, and particularly weak when goverment spending is cut at the same time.
Lange war es ruhig hier aufm Kanal. So viel ist passiert, dass ich an manchen Morgen aufgewacht bin und nicht wusste, wo ich gerade bin. Zwei Umzüge und drei Länder später lebe ich seit Kurzem in Brüssel. Salut tout le monde! Lohnt es sich zu Twitter zurück zu kommen?
Prenzlauer Berg. Habe die Person gefragt, wieso sie einen Sticker abmacht, auf dem „Palestinians against Hamas" steht & ob sie Palästinenserin ist. „Nein, bin ich nicht, aber sie sollten gegen Israel sein!", war die Antwort. Warum denkt diese Person, sie könne darüber 1/
The skull of a Neanderthal woman, found in the Kurdistan Region six years ago and featured in a new Netflix documentary, will be returned to the Region, a Kurdish archaeological official said on Friday.
https://t.co/UxeavTu9TL
Beginning in 1986, the Anfal campaign killed more than 182,000 Kurds in two years of slaughter by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime. Named after the eighth surah in the Quran, the campaign began on April 14, 1988, in the Kurdistan Region's Garmiyan area.
Kein Gefängnis mehr für Menschen ohne Ticket (sondern nur die 60 Euro Zivilstrafe)! Was jetzt Köln für seinen ÖPNV entschieden hat - auf Initiative der @fdp ! -, das kann auch Berlin, oder, @FranziskaGiffey? https://t.co/UJVwQdby5v
#Damascus | The aftermath of the Israeli strike in Damascus targeting an extension of the Iranian embassy.
So far, the IRGC has confirmed the death of 6 people, including commander of the Iranian fighters in Syria and Lebanon.
Zum internationalen #TransDayOfVisibility möchte ich eure Aufmerksamkeit auf trans Personen & ihre Entrechtung in Russland lenken, mein Text für @zeitonline:
https://t.co/dmv4WDxCxa
A massive fire swept through central Duhok’s Chale bazaar on early Monday, burning over 100 shops. The blaze was controlled several hours later. https://t.co/u1b8mzt7P1
"Halabja massacre was not the only genocidal attack against the Kurds in Iraq. There were others [...]Yet the international community largely downplayed these crimes against humanity for geopolitical reasons." Worth reading in full👇
https://t.co/zZces9inPV
As we mark the 33rd anniversary of the tragic Kurdish exodus of 1991, let's not forget those who helped, among them the generous people of Poland who sent truckloads of medicine and food while they were spending a difficult time themselves.
@KrgPoland | @PLinErbil