An advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani said on Saturday that he hopes former Iraqi President Barham Salih will prioritize Yazidi issues as he assumes leadership of the United Nations refugee agency.

A lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) said on Saturday that Ankara’s parliamentary commission overseeing the peace process could discuss extending the “right to hope” legal principle to jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, a prominent women’s rights advocate and journalist, was arrested on Friday while attending a memorial for a human rights lawyer, according to her supporters.