Bekir Aydogan

Bekir Aydoğan is an Erbil-based journalist, focusing on Iraqi Kurdistan. He holds an MA with a dissertation on Iraqi Kurdish politics from the Department of Politics and International Relations of the Middle East at Exeter University, UK.
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Iraq's Militias Send a Warning to Turkey

On April 14, a Turkish military base in Bashiqa, some 20 kilometers northeast of Mosul in northern Iraq, was a target of a missile strike that killed a Turkish soldier. The attack happened on the same day that an explosives-laden drone targeted Erbil International Airport in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The drone strike was claimed by an Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia militia,... Continue Reading

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