By | Dr. Nazaket Hussen
Since the past 126 years, a people and the owner of a national cause, busy with a revolutionary struggle and trying to gain independence and the very existence of a state. Away from the homeland and in the exile, at the hands of the thinker and intellectual ‘Miqdad Medhat Badrkhan’ on 22 April 1898 in Egypt, the first Kurdish newspaper was published under the name of (Kurdistan). Although the total number of these newspapers was issued intermittently abroad and in the exile. But it has become an initiative for the cultural struggle of a people who wanted to convey with pen and thought the voice of their nationalism and cause in the world. This cultural struggle continues with Kurdish revolutionary struggle. After South of Kurdistan obtained freedom and great public uprising in the spring of 1991, and establishment of the first government council of the Kurdistan Region. The constant concern of the Kurdistan Regional Government was the preservation and continuation of this media struggle. Therefore, in 2007, the Kurdistan Region issued the Press Law as a modern law to legalize journalistic work and consider it as a specialized work in the Kurdistan Region. This Law specified the procedures and how to deal with the journalist, his duties and rights. At the same time, in 2004, Law No. 40 was issued to establish the Kurdistan Journalist Syndicate in order to make a greater effort to recognize and maintain journalistic work as a profession and competence. In addition to a number of laws and other directives related to this field and expanding the ground of freedom of expression. What this region and its government wants and asks for now from the media, is to preserve coexistence and peace and serve the national cause of the Kurdish people. They also ask journalists to carry out their professional duties, communicate the facts, inform people, and avoid use of rough tongues, chaos, and the use of the media for purposes that do not serve our just cause
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