Sign of a great comedy - #BrosMovie is just as hilarious on repeat viewing. The writing is so sharp, the jokes are non-stop, and the entire cast (down to the cameos) get a moment to shine. Support this movie - we need more like it (though most won't be as good). @billyeichner pic.twitter.com/YVBVL2Vg7H
— Nigel Smith (@nigelmfs) October 6, 2022
BROS is now at an estimated $8.4 million in terms of North American box office.
Turning to Iraq . . .
of Nagihan Akarsel's murderer.
— Gurbaksh Singh Chahal (@gchahal) October 7, 2022
On October 2, an armed attack in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq's Kurdistan Region, killed journalist and academic Nagihan Akarsel.
Artists at Risk (AR) condemns the assassination of Kurdish journalist, academic and women’s rights activist Nagihan Akarsel on 4 October in Iraq, just weeks after Kurdish activist Mahsa Amini was killed in police custody in Iran. We stand with the struggle for women’s freedom! pic.twitter.com/NnHBnDKouz
— Artists at Risk (AR) (@ArtistsatRisk) October 6, 2022
#Iraq: Nagihan Akarsel, co-editor of the magazine Jineologî and a powerful Kurdish feminist voice, was killed on 4 October in Suleymaniyah. RSF condemns this murder and calls on the authorities to do everything possible to bring the perpetrators to justice.https://t.co/LV6GwVncX0
— RSF (@RSF_inter) October 5, 2022
According to RUDAW, the government of Turkey is admitting to the murder:
The Turkish ambassador to Iraq said Sunday that members of the Kurdistan
Workers’ Party (PKK) and associates of the group are Ankara’s targets
in response to the recent assassination of a women’s rights activist in
the city of Sulaimani.
Rights activist Nagihan Akarsel, who had ideological ties to the PKK, was shot multiple times and killed
in Sulaimani on Tuesday by assailants in the city’s Bakhtiyari
neighborhood. Her ties to the Kurdish armed group quickly led droves of
people on social media to blame Turkey for her death.
“Those who are affiliated with the PKK are indeed our targets,” Turkish
Ambassador Ali Riza Guney said in response to a question from Rudaw’s
Payam Sarbast during a press conference in the Kurdistan Region’s
capital of Erbil.
It can't be used to promote war (the way a death in Iran has been), so Nagihan's murder doesn't get US press attention. NEWS.AM notes:
Hakan Fidan, head of Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MİT), met with the Iraqi Turkmen Front earlier this week, raising questions from Iraqi opposition politicians over his visit in mid-September, Ahval writes.
Fidan's visit to the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region, Erbil, on Oct. 4 coincided with the killing of Kurdish figure Nagihan Akarsel in a shootout in Sulaymaniyah province, the Kurdish website Medya News reported.
The Iraqi coordination structure, an opposition body made up of Shiite parties, has called for an investigation, and a member of the structure, Turki Sedan, said the visit was organized without notifying Iraq's central government.