Wladimir van Wilgenburg
@vvanwilgenburg
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Co-author of 2 books on Syrian Kurds, freelance journalist @SPGlobal @MiddleEastEye , etc MA Conflict Studies/Kurdish Studies. Not here for discussions/trolls.
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I am not on Twitter for debate with anonymous accounts, threats or partisan politics. If you have a question, DM me.
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Thank you all for your support! I'm back I hereby ask
@jack
to verify my account so it won't get censored again by trolls. My work is important to shed a light on what's going on in northern Syria. Especially now that fewer journalists are going there due to security risks (1)
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Due to the corona virus I couldn't celebrate Newroz in Kurdistan🔥. I'm stuck in Netherlands. My mother asked if I was sad & asked me to come downstairs & played a Kurdish CD I bought her. We danced together in the living room.
Newroz pîroz be! ☀️💚♥️💛
#StaySafeStayHome
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Finally engaged to my beautiful 💖
@BokanSaeed
🎉🎉
لەسەری زێڕین کێوی، تەڕ بووم لەبەر بارانێ
بە غولامی ئەگریجەت بم، لە هەنیەت دەگرن سانێ
برینانم دەرمان کەن، بە دەستی نەشمیلانێ
ئای وەرە، گیان وەرە، کیژی کوردی نازەنین
من فەرهادم، تۆ شیرین
🎼 محەممەد ماملێ
📸 Avon Photography
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Reports co-head of Syrian Future Party Hevrin Khalaf killed on the road by Turkish artillery strike. I am trying to get more info. She was a very strong female politician. I interviewed her once in Ain al Issa.
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Children scream of fear after Iranian attacks in Koya which are still going on
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Newroz pîroz be Kurdistan
نەورۆزتان پیرۆزبێت کوردستان!
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Kurdish Hawrami parrot 🤣. Friend shared this video.
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A Kurdish woman from
#Kobani
asks a US soldier: “If you can’t protect us, your allies, from Turkey’s bombing, then what are you doing in here?”
h/t
@dlshadothman
@CENTCOM
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Kurd bibin yek
Kurd bibin yek
Kurd bibin yek
Kurd bibin yek
Kurd bibin yek
Kurd bibin yek
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YPG fighter: “They fled & they left. Let the mercenaries of Turks, of Erdogan, &everyone know no one can defeat YPG or SDF! Let them know we are the people who are on the right side." (1)
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Nma Nariman, a famous Kurdish activist girl from Sulaimani (who normally focuses on internal issues in Kurdistan region) has a message to be heard about the situation in northeast of Syria.
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A video that showed how a Kurdish family was almost hit by a Turkish airstrike while they were trying to escape the summer heat in the Kurdistan region has angered & mobilized the Kurdish youth, launching the twitter campaign
#TurkeyInvadesKurdistan
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Şanaziyek e ku min Femandarê Giştî
@MazloumAbdi
dît. Wî ji min re got Tirkiye hîn jî dixwaze Cizîrê û Kobanî dagir bike lê peymana li gel Amerîka û Rûsya rê li ber êrîşên nû yên Tirkiye digire. Lê dîsa jî eger Tirkiye êrîşî Kobanî bike divê Amerîka wek soz dabû, wê siza bike (1)
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Kurdish fighters can still smile despite of the war and suffering. Video by brave Kurdish journalist
@WehbeRomi3
who makes the city of Kobani proud
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Newroz pîroz be Kurdistan!
نەورۆزتان پیرۆزبێت کوردستان!
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With Dr. İsmail Beşikçi who spent several years in a Turkish jail for his work on the Kurds. I remember reading his book Kurdistan International Colony when I was still a student. For years, Beşikçi was the only non-Kurd in Turkey to speak out in defense of the Kurdish rights
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Qamislo units say they captured a Turkish personnel carrier.
"Long live YPG's resistance!
They have left the vehicle and fled. This is what remains of Turkish soldiers," the fighters say.
"Let us try using it."
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Chemical weapons expert Hamish de-Bretton Gordon said the wounds were consistent with the use of white phosphorus. It is a horrific weapon & has been used repeatedly during the Syrian civil war; unfortunately its use has become increasingly normalised".
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Bye bye my friend. He died yesterday from cancer 😪😪
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The Kurds didn't just fight 'for their land'. The Kurdish-led SDF forces that include Christians, Arabs, Turkmen and Kurds have liberated many territories with an Arab majority from ISIS.
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Me and daya several years ago😍😍😍. This year she can't join me due to the pandemic.
#KurdishClothesDay
#kurdistanclothesday
#KurdishHistoryMonth
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Met with famous Kurdish singer Homer Dizayee.
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Gûnde me li Hollandîstanê
My village in the Nederlands
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Wish I could bring my daya to Kurdistan and bless her with Kurdish dresses and nature. Axx 2020...axx COVID.
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Mother of killed female politician Hevrin Khalaf got a standing ovation during her speech in the EU parliament
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The pain of Kurdish mothers. Wish everyone could understand what they were saying
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Roj baş. Xwezî Kurd her tim bibûna yek bi qasî ku di şerê Kobanê de li dijî DAIŞê bûn yek. Roja Rizgariya Kobanî pîroz be.
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“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.” – Franz Schubert.
I love you my gyan
@BokanSaeed
📸 Avon Photography
👗 Vanas Moda
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"I want the American people to show the same position they showed back in 2019 when we were again under stress from the Turks," he said. "We are again now under threat of being ethnically cleansed here by the Turks." Gen
@MazloumAbdi
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Protestors "shout you are ISIS" to Erdogan's convoy
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Sad day: very talented .
@Rudawkurdish
journalist Shifa Gardi killed in
#Mosul
operation on 25.02.2017 RIP
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Stranbêj Welatemir Hollandî
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Roj Baş.
Another new-pro YPG song was released called "Hêy Hêy". Maybe will get translation later.
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Young man from Amude calls on international community to return his right shoe. It got stuck on a Turkish armored vehicle
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VOA interview in Kurdish: Rewşa Kurdên Sûriyê ji Rojnamevan Wladimir van Wilgenburg Bibihîse
Full interview here:
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I didn't expect the boycot Turkey campaign to be so huge in the Kurdistan region. Until I returned to Hewler (Erbil). You can see it's effects on the shops.
Also on social media. This page has over 200,000 members
(1)
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Friend from Kobani send me this: "Trump is lying. If the US is not going to protect the Kurds, they should leave. They have sold us to Turkey, do they want us and our children to be killed by the jihadis? The militia who are attacking
#Kobani
are not FSA, they are ISIS."
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Went for my birthday to the bazaar in Hêwler
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SDF Commander-in-Chief
@MazloumAbdi
thanks Kurdish UFC star
@MakwanAmirkhani
for his courage and solidarity.
Read more about
@MakwanAmirkhani
here:
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Happy New Year to all.
Serê sala nû pîroz be!
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The Kurds will never again help the US in the Middle East: Veteran CIA officer
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Today is the anniversary of the execution of Leyla Qasim. The Kurdish national heroine who was hanged for her opposition to the Iraqi Ba’ath Party on 12 May 1974 (1)
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The Kurds lost Trump — but are winning the battle for U.S. public opinion
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New: If We Have to Choose Between Compromise and Genocide, We Will Choose Our People
The Kurds’ commander in chief explains why his forces are finally ready to partner with Assad and Putin.
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New way to great each other in Middle East after
#Covid_19
crisis :).
No more cheek-to-cheek kiss greetings.
Video from Iran.
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History repeats itself
Jan 28, 2015 ISIS
October 12, 2019 Ahrar as Sharqiya
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Kurds protest against Trump decision during US troops withdrawal. "Trump betrayed us"
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Seems so many Kurds are sad the
@OIRSpox
is leaving.
Bye bye Colonel. Hope you come back and enjoy Newroz in the mountains with me and my friends one day 😢😢.
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