'BBC's bureaucracy meant I missed scoops', says Yalda Hakim
Ahead of her new show on Sky, the journalist talks cancel culture, parenting, and why – despite the risks – she still reports from warzones
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Ahead of her new show on Sky, the journalist talks cancel culture, parenting, and why – despite the risks – she still reports from warzones
Halfway through Yalda Hakim’s 2019 maternity leave from presenting on the BBC News channel, she became fixated on the story of Hevrin Khalaf, a 35-year-old Syrian Kurd politician committed to peace, who was ambushed in her car by the Turkish-backed militia, tortured and murdered.
From the blog of Veysi Dag at The Times of Israel
These groups were often part of the plethora of Syrian rebel groups that operated in northern Syria since the Syrian civil war began in 2011.
Washington has accused the Suleiman Shah Brigade, the Hamza Division and their leadership of committing serious rights abuses in the Kurdish-majority enclave of Afrin.