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Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. Subscribe Editor s Note: This story was originally published in May 2020, near the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are re-running it during Ramadan 2021. This year, everything about Ramadan is different especially iftar. The evening meal during which Muslims break their daily fast is usually a time to come together with family and friends, sometimes crowds of neighbors or fellow Muslims. Like much of life since the coronavirus pandemic began, the Islamic holy month this year has been anything but normal. But many Muslims say they have found a profound sense of connection and spiritual renewal amid the physical isolation of the quarantine. ....
Push to ban pro-Kurdish HDP erodes Turkey’s political pluralism further The price for Erdogan’s attempts to silence Turkey’s Kurdish population will have to be paid for years to come Timing of HDP charges suggests Turkey is becoming more repressive against the Kurds and even more nationalistic Updated 26 March 2021 March 25, 2021 21:05 MISSOURI, USA: Every March, Kurds, Persians, Azeris, Tajiks, and others celebrate Newroz, the spring equinox festival of the new year. In the Kurdish version of Newroz, legends surrounding the festival focus on a mythical blacksmith of antiquity named Kawa, who saved normal people from a terrible tyrant. The Kurdish version of Newroz therefore comes replete with connotations of freedom from tyranny, oppression, and injustice. ....