Arab Media Systems e book

The language of the Turkmen (a Turkish dialect) and Syriac are official languages in the administrative units where the Turkmen or Assyrians represent the majority of the population. [...] For instance, the letter issued by the Media and Communication Commission at the end of 2018 was addressed to all the press institutions in Iraq and informed them of the necessity to stop any abuses of national and religious symbols. [...] The websites of the Qatari owned Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, and the Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat newspapers, and a number of news agencies were blocked due to their criticisms of the performance of the Iraqi government. [...] The public type is in fact controlled by the Iraqi government because the IMN is financed by the Iraqi parliament, and the government indirectly mandates the written policy decisions of the media controlled by this network. [...] Challenges In Iraq, the political conflict among the parties and political and religious blocs, which is covertly motivated by Shi’ite-Sunni and Arab-Kurdish conflicts to acquire power, represents the main obstacle to the progress and sustainability of the media.