Rudaw.net

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Public anger over the lack of basic services and high unemployment is growing in Iraq as protests that have raged in the southern province of Basra this week spread northwards on Friday.

AFP

Two more demonstrators were killed in southern Iraq, officials said, as protests against unemployment spread on Saturday from the port city of Basra to other parts of the country including Baghdad, reported AFP.

It is with great sadness that we have learned the death of our friend Ephrem-Isa Yousif on Tuesday, in the morning of July 4th, at the age of 74, at the Bichat Hospital in Paris where he had just undergone a heavy surgery.

Nytimes.com | Thomas Erdbrink

TEHRAN — President Trump says his decision to leave the nuclear agreement is already having a huge impact on Iran. He is right, Iranians say, but for the wrong reasons.

By Associated Press / Jun.25.2018

The unrest signaled widespread unease after the U.S. decision to withdraw from Tehran's nuclear deal and restore sanctions on the country.

Nytimes.com | By Selahattin Demirtas

EDIRNE, Turkey — Turkey will vote in presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24. I am one of six candidates running for president. I am running from my prison cell.

Nytimes.com | By Carlotta Gall

ISTANBUL — Public schools are closing, on little or no notice, and being replaced by religious schools. Exams are scrapped by presidential whim. Tens of thousands of public teachers have been fired. Outside religious groups are teaching in schools, without parental consent.

Hdp.org.tr

The election speech of our Presidential candidate Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş was aired on the TRT News channel. The English translation of the speech as follows:

Economist.com

Selahattin Demirtas says the election is between "democracy and a dictatorship”