Kurdistan24
Kurdistan24 is a Kurdistan Region broadcaster and news site based in Erbil, generally aligned with the Kurdistan Democratic Party. It publishes in six languages, covering Kurdistan and Iraqi politics, economy and culture.
Kurdistan24 at a glance
- Country
- Iraq
- Kind of outlet
- Television news channel
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- kurdistan24.net ↗
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Kurdistan24 front page, right now
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Is Kurdistan24 left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Crosswire lists Kurdistan24 as Center within Iraq's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side.
Read Kurdistan24 beside another title from Iraq and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Broadcast newsrooms build around what can be shown and who can be booked, so Kurdistan24's online front page tends to track its on-air running order — watch which stories carry video and which are text-only. Because Kurdistan24 is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Iraq either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
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Where Kurdistan24 sits in Iraq's press
Kurdistan24 is one of 6 outlets tracked in Iraq, and one of 2 television news channels among them — the other being Rudaw. By outlets tracked, Iraq ranks fifth of the 20 countries on Crosswire's Middle East and North Africa hub, which lists 99 outlets in all.
Across the Middle East and North Africa, Crosswire tracks 11 of the 66 television news channels in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Kurdistan24 outside Iraq, starting with Türkiye, Iran and Iraq, are Roya News English (Jordan), Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia), Al Jazeera (Qatar) and Press TV (Iran). Opening one of them beside Kurdistan24 is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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