PM Barzani congratulates Dilan Yesilgoz on becoming Netherlands’ defense minister

Yesilgoz was born to a Turkish mother and a Kurdish father in Ankara in 1977, and migrated to the Netherlands as a child. She joined the Socialist Party in 1999, and previously served as Minister of Justice under Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

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Syria signs MoU with Hague organization to boost search for missing persons

More than 100,000 Syrians went missing during the country’s civil war, according to recent figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The UN body has also documented at least 97 people who have been abducted since the start of the year.

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Amsterdam, Erbil to boost economic ties

A meeting between Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and the Charge d’Affaires at the Dutch Embassy in Iraq Christoph Prommersberger saw the latter assert that a business delegation from his country “will soon visit to expand trade and economic cooperation" with the Kurdistan Region.

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