Closing of the "Media Safety Training" course in Erbil

ARK News: The work of a training course for media professionals from Syrian Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Region, and Iraq was concluded, on Saturday, December 14, 2019, in the city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region.

The session was attended by dozens of Kurdish and Arab media professionals, where the session focused on media safety, under the title "Media Safety Training" delivered by the expert and trainer at the International Federation of Journalists, and a member of the Committee to Defend Freedoms of Journalists in the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate, the journalist Muhammad Aqrawi.

The course was sponsored by the International Federation of Journalists, in coordination with the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate, and the course lasted for two days and extensively.

In a special statement to ARK Media Foundation, the lecturer, Muhammad Aqrawi said: Such courses are important for journalists, especially after many journalists were martyred due to their coverage of wars and riots, stressing: They are continuing to deliver similar courses in other Arab regions and countries, where the next course will be for Syrian Kurdish refugees in Domiz camp in Duhok Governorate.

For his part, the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate Hakim Azad gave a speech to him at the end of the session, in which he talked about the importance of organizing such courses, to redress the dangers faced by journalists and the accompanying crew, then listened in detail to the opinions and proposals of the participants, and shared with them the problems they are exposed to, stressing on work to find a way out and a solution for them that guarantees their future.

At the end of the course, the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate, Hakim Azad, distributed the certified certificates by the International Federation of Journalists to the participants, and the participants expressed their thanks and satisfaction and the extent of the benefit they received during the course, expressing the continuity of organizing similar courses in the future.

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