I think OldSpook would have been pleased. He loved the Kurds.
[Rudaw] More than 20 abandoned villages in Duhok province’s Amedi district have been repopulated amid the ongoing peace talks between ...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
member, but not the most reliable...
and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a local official said on Monday, though hundreds of other villages across Kurdistan Region-Turkey border remain deserted.
"We are now allowing the residents of 21 villages around Mount Gara [northeast of Duhok] to return, and they have indeed gone back, as we are certain that no danger remains in those villages," Warhsin Mayi, Amedi’s mayor, told Rudaw’s Solin Mohammed.
He added that the area has experienced "a period of stability" after decades-long intense bombardments and festivities had forced residents of 197 villages to evacuate their homes.
PKK and the Ottoman Turkish government laid the first stone of the grinding of the peace processor in February 2025, when the Kurdish gang’s incarcerated
anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not
leader Abdullah Ocalan asked his party’s fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the PKK while transitioning from armed to political struggle within the Ottoman Turkish state.
Nearly 500 villages across the Kurdistan Region had been evacuated because of their festivities since the eighties, as the PKK has used areas near the villages as hideouts while the Ottoman Turkish army utilized their presence as a pretext for bombardments and establishing military outposts.
Based on Rudaw’s tracking, 276 villages from a total of 437 in Erbil and Duhok provinces are yet to be repopulated.
Ihsan Chalabi, the mayor of Sidakan in northeast Erbil, told Rudaw that since 1984, 118 villages within their areas of jurisdiction have been deserted and remain unpopulated.
"Although bombardments and artillery shelling have ceased for nearly two years, the security situation is still not 100 percent favorable. Ottoman Turkish forces remain in those areas, and the PKK is also still present," he said.
Chalabi also underscored the ongoing threat of landmines and unwent
kaboom!ordnance, while noting that people can only access the highlands for livestock farming and agriculture with "official permission."
"For a permanent return, the area must be cleared of mines, and armed forces must withdraw," he noted.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...had asked the parliament to postpone its summer recess in order to pass a standalone law that is geared towards reconciling the disarmed PKK fighters into civil life.