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Wassim Bassem

A military vehicle of Iraqi security forces is seen at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Kirkuk, Iraq November 5, 2017. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed - RC16C3294970

Silahlı Kürt gruplar Irak’taki ihtilaflı bölgeleri geri istiyor

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Chairman of the Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITC) Arshad al-Salihi (2nd-L) speaks during a press conference in the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on June 28, 2014, to denounce comments made by Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani about the city. Barzani said Baghdad could no longer object to Kurdish self-rule in Kirkuk and other areas from which federal forces withdrew as the insurgents advanced. AFP PHOTO/MARWAN IBRAHIM (Photo credit should read MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images)

Irak: Kürt referandumu Türkmenlerin kaygılarını artırıyor

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Members of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU), a small Christian militia charged with protecting the predominantly Christian Iraqi town of Qaraqosh (Hamdaniya), pray in a destroyed church in the town which lies some 30 kilometres east of the northern city of Mosul on March 3, 2017.
Qaraqosh was ravaged by IS jihadists, who seized it in June 2014 as they rampaged across parts of northern Iraq, capturing second city Mosul and swathes of the area known as the Nineveh Plain, home to much of the county's d

Iraklı Hristiyanlar yurtlarına dönecek mi?

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Irak’ta havaalanı çok ama uçak yok

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Iraqi security forces stand next to burnt car at the site of an attack on a police checkpoint, near the town of Qadisiyah, 40km south of the Iraqi holy Shiite city of Najaf on January 1, 2017.
Gunmen wearing suicide vests and driving an explosives-laden vehicle opened fire on the checkpoint near the town of Qadisiyah, which lies around 180 kilometres (110 miles) south of Baghdad. / AFP / Haidar HAMDANI (Photo credit should read HAIDAR HAMDANI/AFP/Getty Images)

Kuzey’de mevzi kaybeden İD Irak’ın Şii bölgelerini hedef alıyor

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Irak uyuşturucu üreten bir ülkeye mi dönüşüyor?

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Iraqi Shiite Turkmen families, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, arrive at Kanaan, Diyala province July 24, 2014. Picture taken July 24, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTR405US

Iraklı Türkmenler bağımsız vilayet istiyor

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İşsizlik Irak’ta tarihi eser kaçakçılığını patlatıyor

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Beer cans are seen on the ground at the Ashurbanipal cultural society in Baghdad after an attack January 16, 2011. Men armed with steel pipes last week raided the Christian social club boasting a bar, and vandalized liquor shops in Baghdad, raising fears of a creeping fundamentalism as Iraq's new government gets to work. Picture taken January 16, 2011. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST RELIGION) - RTXWPQJ

Irak din ve devlet işlerini ayırabilir mi?

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Iraklılar ihtilafları çözmek için aşiretlere başvuruyor

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Irak’ı saran rüşvet hastalığı

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An Iraqi man and a child ride a small motorcycle through the streets of Baghdad on February 20, 2008. Moqtada al-Sadr's six-month freeze on attacks by his Mahdi Army has strengthened his hand and allowed him to purge dissidents from the ranks of the militia, analysts and aides of the Shiite cleric said. Sadr, long a thorn in the side of US-led forces in Iraq, is expected to announce on February 22, 2008 whether he will renew his unilateral ceasefire, set to expire the day after. AFP PHOTO/PATRICK BAZ (Photo

Irak sokakları “mekik” istilasında

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