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Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
. Its printing offices are located in Baghdad and its press office in Sulaimaniya. The paper was launched on February 14th, 2006. It is issued on a fortnight basis and distributed across the whole of Iraq, reporting on Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....
and Iraqi affairs. Apart from containing analyses of the region's main topics, it also includes interviews with leading officials.
The paper was named after 'soma', which means 'perspective' in Kurdish. Its Managing Editor is Tanya Goudsouzian. It has a national circulation of 8,000 copies per issue.
The paper has close affiliations with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa...
(PUK).
Soma Digest on YouTube
On January 1st, 2010 Soma Digest launched its online video channel on YouTubeYouTube
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, thus aiming to spread its voice to a wider range of fans through the use of short pieces of viewing material.