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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; Kurdish Globe</title>
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		<title>As Turkey mend ties with Russia, what now for the changing dynamics in the region?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/08/as-turkey-mend-ties-with-russia-what-now-for-the-changing-dynamics-in-the-region/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2016 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a strong geopolitical standing, Turkey has historically been a keen lever between the East and West. After increasingly lukewarm relations with its NATO allies in the West in recent years and a bitter feud with the biggest Eastern power in Russia, Turkey could not sit idle as its regional leverage was diluted and new [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The liberation of Mosul rest on the Kurds</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/08/the-liberation-of-mosul-rest-on-the-kurds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2016 00:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[ISIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mosul]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the liberation of Ramadi, Tikrit, Sinjar and more recently Manbij in Syria proved painful and tricky leading to streams of refugees, then Mosul will prove much worse. Islamic State (IS) has held Mosul for over two years. If the liberation was anything other than bloody and complicated, then it would not have taken months [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Terror in Europe and the Middle East is one and the same</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/07/terror-in-europe-and-the-middle-east-is-one-and-the-same/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nice massacre]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Europe still recovering from the Nice massacre a little over a week ago that saw 84 people killed and 303 injured when a French-Tunisian terrorist chillingly drove a 19-tonne lorry into large crowds watching fireworks on Bastille Day in Nice, Germany was coming to terms with a shocking attack of its own on Friday. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Failed coup attempt provides Erdogan with new ammunition</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/07/failed-coup-attempt-provides-erdogan-with-new-ammunition/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/07/failed-coup-attempt-provides-erdogan-with-new-ammunition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2016 17:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The failed military coup in Turkey was intended to usher a new order, however, in the end it was Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that emerged with a stronger hand and a great opportunity. Dramatic footage as the coup unfolded of heavy gunfire, tanks and helicopters resembled a war zone. A weary looking Erdogan addressing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Aftermath of Chilcot Report – Iraqi invasion through narrow lens and overlooking inhumanity</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/07/aftermath-of-chilcot-report-iraqi-invasion-through-narrow-lens-and-overlooking-inhumanity/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/07/aftermath-of-chilcot-report-iraqi-invasion-through-narrow-lens-and-overlooking-inhumanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chilcot Report]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The obsession with the legitimacy, legality and value of the invasion of Iraq and the ousting of Saddam Hussein from power in 2003 was renewed with the release of the Chilcot Report. The much anticipated report by John Chilcot gave fresh fuel to sceptics of the invasion in the UK and the West with mass [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>UK exit is as much a question of the fabric of the EU as the future of the UK</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/06/uk-exit-is-as-much-a-question-of-the-fabric-of-the-eu-as-the-future-of-the-uk/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/06/uk-exit-is-as-much-a-question-of-the-fabric-of-the-eu-as-the-future-of-the-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK referendum on EU membership was always going to be a tenuous and divisive affair whose impact would echo well beyond these shores. European and world leaders woke up to a new reality on Friday as the exit camp won the day against polling projections. Fluctuations in the Pound were as wild as predictions [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mankind’s footprint of sin and atrocities can never be confined to any piece of land or racial grouping</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/06/mankinds-footprint-of-sin-and-atrocities-can-never-be-confined-to-any-piece-of-land-or-racial-grouping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Far Right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jo Cox]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a week of devastating terror in the West, British PM Jo Cox was tragically murdered outside her constituent surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire. The killer was not a Muslim, contrary to many a first thought, but white British showing that cold blooded acts of terror are hardly confided to one religion alone. Thomas Mair, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lifting of MPs immunity from prosecution fuel for new social earthquake in Turkey</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/06/lifting-of-mps-immunity-from-prosecution-fuel-for-new-social-earthquake-in-turkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ratified a bill lifting MPs&#8217; immunity from prosecution. Although, it is a move that affects all opposition parties, it no doubt bites the Kurdish-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) the hardest with 55 out of 59 of their elected parliamentarians facing a summary of proceedings. The billed was signed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Separating the right of Kurdish independence from the right regional, political or economic climate</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/06/separating-the-right-of-kurdish-independence-from-the-right-regional-political-or-economic-climate/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/06/separating-the-right-of-kurdish-independence-from-the-right-regional-political-or-economic-climate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Kurdish Globe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurdistan Region]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurdistan independence referendum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If an ethnic group ever deserved an award for patience and perseverance then it is the Kurds. Still the largest nation without a state, the Kurds are told to bide their time for independence or worse are threatened by its consequences. One hundred years have passed since the infamous Sykes-Picot agreement and it is approaching [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. and Syrian Kurds &#8211; Hand-in-hand on the road to Raqqa</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/06/u-s-and-syrian-kurds-hand-in-hand-on-the-road-to-raqqa/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/06/u-s-and-syrian-kurds-hand-in-hand-on-the-road-to-raqqa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2016 08:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raqaa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SDF]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally any march towards the de facto Islamic State (IS) capital of Raqqa would be met with jubilation and relief but such is the sensitive political picture in Syria that even the long hoped for liberation of Raqqa is shrouded in controversy. The U.S. spent millions on training so-called moderate Arab opposition forces only to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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