Iraq - Syrian Kurdish journalist threatened by PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan

Reporters without borders

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is very concerned for the safety of Mohamed Abdu Hamu, an Iraqi Kurdistan-based Syrian Kurdish journalist better known as Biradost Azizi, who says he is being threatened by Turkey's armed separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its Syrian offshoot, the Democratic Union Party (PYD). Azizi is from Qamishli in northeastern Syria, but has been a refugee in Iraqi Kurdistan ever since his expulsion from Syria in 2004. “We call on the authorities (...)

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