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Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Fall of Kobani Could Mean an End to the Ankara-PKK Peace Talks
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Fall of Kobani Could Mean an End to the Ankara-PKK Peace Talks

Wednesday 8 October 2014
Batman.  Thousands of people had joined the demonstrations called by the main pro-Kurdish party, the People's Democratic Party (HDP), not only against Ankara's failure to fight ISIS terrorist group fighting for the Syrian border town of Kobani, but also against Ankara's inhibition from ...
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Turkish Police and Kurds Clash on Ocalan’s Detention Anniversary
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Turkish Police and Kurds Clash on Ocalan’s Detention Anniversary

Tuesday 17 February 2015 ،
Batman, Qizil Tepe, Mardin, Cizre Botan, Sharnakh, and Midyat. Long live leader Ocalan, protesters chanted. The Turkish police detained 17 protesters, claiming that they participated in illegal protests. Protestors condemned what they called “the international conspiracy against the PKK’s leader”, d ...
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Five hurt as Turkish cops Clash with Kurds celebrating Nowruz
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Five hurt as Turkish cops Clash with Kurds celebrating Nowruz

Monday 23 March 2015 ،
Batman by setting car tires on fire. The group then stoned an ambulance and a prison vehicle passing by. A police car also caught fire after a Molotov cocktail thrown by the protesters hit it. Police used pepper gas to disperse the people. Nowruz is as one of the oldest and most cherished festivitie ...
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Turkey’s Approach toward Kurds after Failed Coup
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Turkey’s Approach toward Kurds after Failed Coup

Wednesday 10 August 2016 ،
Batman and Istanbul. That being said, there are evidence pointing out that Gülen movement, in order to soft overthrow the Justice and Development Party, has made contacts with the PKK affiliated institutions, and this subject has definitely had some effect on the recent conflicts. In addition, ...
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Turkey Arrests Two More MPs from Opposition Kurdish Party
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Turkey Arrests Two More MPs from Opposition Kurdish Party

Wednesday 14 December 2016 ،
Batman, where she was released under judicial control. The agency said an investigation had been launched into the lawmaker after she allegedly spoke at the funeral of a man killed during security operations against Kurdish militants in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir. In May, the Turkish parl ...
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Turkey Detains Four Germans over Election Interference
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Turkey Detains Four Germans over Election Interference

Monday 25 June 2018 ،
Batman, they said.
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Roadside Bomb Kills 7 Soldiers in SE Turkey
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Roadside Bomb Kills 7 Soldiers in SE Turkey

Thursday 4 October 2018 ،
Batman province after a bombing targeted a military convoy on Thursday. Alwaght- At least seven soldiers were killed in Turkey’s Batman province after a bombing targeted a military convoy on Thursday. In a statement, the Batman Governor’s Office said terrorists detonated an improvised e ...
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At Least 21 Killed over 1000 Injured as 6.8-Magnitude Quake Hits Eastern Turkey
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At Least 21 Killed over 1000 Injured as 6.8-Magnitude Quake Hits Eastern Turkey

Saturday 25 January 2020 ،
Batman, the Turkish daily added.   Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said emergency workers were searching for 30 people trapped under the rubble. The quake struck at 8:55pm local time, at a depth of 6.7km near the town of Sivrice in Elazig, the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, or ...
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Turkey Detains 5 Kurdish Mayors as Crackdown Continues
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Turkey Detains 5 Kurdish Mayors as Crackdown Continues

Monday 23 March 2020 ،
Batman, as well as those in the Egil, Silvan, Lice and Ergani districts of the Kurdish-populated southeastern province of Diyarbakir.   Sancar condemned the move, saying the party had not received official notification from the central government. We reject with hatred this vil ...
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Filling of Large Turkish Dams Source of Regional Dust Storms
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Filling of Large Turkish Dams Source of Regional Dust Storms

Monday 16 May 2022 ،
Batman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Kilis, Mardin, Siirt, Sanliurfa and Sirnak– covering an area of ​​75,358 square kilometers. Although Turkey has only 54,145 square kilometers, equal to 24.5 percent, of the Tigris River basin and 400 kilometers, equal to 22 percent, of its length, and supplies 25 ...

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Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.