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@KurdistanWatch
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228subscribers
+2 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002321381750 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @KurdistanWatch |
| Created | Between 1 September 2024 and 31 March 2025— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 13 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 13 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/KurdistanWatch |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Aug 2026, 23:37 | 228 | +2 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 10:20 | 226 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 10:33 | 226 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 1 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 7 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 20 (1 August 2026 – 7 August 2026) |
| Views total | 1,267 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 8 Aug 2026, 10:20 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Measured directly from 4 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
A revealing dispute has emerged between the KRG and Dana Gas over gas supplies from Khor Mor to Iraq. The KRG accused Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum of starting supplies to the Taza power plant in Kirkuk without its approval, saying it was informed only when the deal was publicly announced. Dana Gas responded that the KRG had known about the agreement since January, had received a copy, and that the Ministry of Nat…
Really notable: Erbil police said preliminary findings indicate that the shooting of Mukri, son of PAK leader Hussein Yazdanpana, was not “an act of terrorism”, clearly implying that it was not an Iranian assassination attempt, as the group had claimed. Other sources say the shooting occurred at around 1:30 a.m., further fuelling speculation about the circumstances.
Quite a remarkable example of how media can completely flip the narrative. A drone video showing a very long queue at one of Duhok’s subsidised petrol stations was proudly published by Ava Media, owned by KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani’s son, Areen. Rather than presenting it as evidence of fuel shortages and soaring prices, the caption celebrates the scene, saying that hundreds of cars are waiting because the fu…
Mukri Yazdanpana, the only son of Iranian Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) leader Hussein Yazdanpana, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in Erbil. He remains hospitalised in what is described as an unstable condition. The family has lived in Erbil for decades. Mukri is reportedly a PAK fighter and fought alongside his father against ISIS.
Petrol prices have jumped again in Erbil and Duhok. Super grade has broken through the 2,000-dinar mark ($1.32), with most stations selling between 2,050 and 2,250 dinars ($1.35–$1.48) per litre. Improved (muhassan) grade is selling for 1,850 dinars ($1.22), regular unsubsidised petrol for 1,400 to 1,450 dinars ($0.92–$0.95), and diesel has surged to 1,550 dinars ($1.02) from around 450 ($0.30) just two months ago. …
Mojtaba Jafari, an adviser to the commander-in-chief of the Iranian Army, claims Iranian Army NOHED airborne special forces carried out 14 ground operations against armed Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in Erbil and Suleimani. Iranian news website Entekhab quoted Jafari in a report on the army’s activities during Iran’s confrontation with the United States and Israel. Jafari said the commandos targeted opposition…
Such issues are often more nuanced, but it is interesting to see things from the other side. A Muslim (especially Sunni) Kurd would likely never have thought about Prince Muhammad of Rawanduz through such a lens, but it is notable that Yazidis see it this way and equate it to how Kurds see Saddam. It comes down to how historical figures are perceived. There is a similar dynamic with Saladin, whom Shias (and by exte…
Nechirvan Barzani did not meet SDF commander Mazloum Abdi in Damascus and has now returned to Erbil. A notable pattern is emerging. During French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit, despite widespread speculation, Abdi also did not meet Macron or foreign officials in Damascus. The same has now occurred during Barzani’s visit. The apparent aim is to establish an early precedent under Ahmed al-Sharaa: Damascus is the s…
Yazidi activist and Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity laureate Mirza Dinnayi raises a notable issue on the anniversary of the ISIS onslaught against Sinjar. In a video filmed in Rawanduz, Dinnayi stands beside the statue of Mir Muhammad Pasha, the nineteenth-century ruler of the Soran Emirate, and asks why a figure associated with one of the bloodiest campaigns against the Yazidis is still celebrated as a Kurdish …
KDP leader Masoud Barzani has received Ali Bapir, the head of the Kurdistan Justice Group (Komal), marking their first meeting in years after relations broke down and Komal became one of the KRG's most outspoken critics. The meeting reflects two broader political trends: First, the KDP appears to be pursuing a wider effort to repair relations with political rivals across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region after a period…
Twelve years after the Sinjar onslaught, the fate of 2,553 Yazidis remains unknown, according to figures from the Kurdistan Region Office for Rescuing Abducted Yazidis. Today, 3 August, marks the anniversary of the genocide. In 2014, ISIS overran Sinjar district and its surrounding Yazidi communities, killing thousands of civilians and abducting more than 6,000 others. According to the Office, Iraq's Yazidi populat…
These strained relations deteriorated further in the final hours before the fall, when the leaders refused to heed the KDP and chose to remain in their homes. Some who were on poor terms with the party left Mount Sinjar and returned to the city. Hours before ISIS reached Sinjar, Yazidi leaders in southern villages such as Kojo told KDP officials they regarded ISIS as Baathists. "We prefer the Baathists to you becaus…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @KurdistanWatch. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank — 1,121,195 of 1,550,164entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
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A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 13 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Kurdistan Watch” (@KurdistanWatch), 228 subscribers as measured 13 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/KurdistanWatch.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.