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		<title>Ankara must embrace new Syrian Kurdish reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year after Syrian Kurds took historic control of their territory, proposed plans for an autonomous Syrian Kurdistan region sent fresh shivers down Ankara. Any anxiety towards the establishment of de facto autonomy for Kurds is amplified all the more by the PKK connections with the dominant Democratic Union Party (PYD) that exercises the greatest [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Red lines and lack of action – how the bigger picture in Syria is overlooked</title>
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		<title>A new Syria in a new Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the West remains idle, Syrians continue to suffer at large The international community continues to tip-toe around the Syrian crisis, while almost two years into the bloody conflict, the death toll rapidly increases and thousands more refugees are forced to flee across the borders. Syria may have much greater socio-political, sectarian and strategic connotations [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>For longer suffering Kurds in Syria, the boot is now on the other foot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With protests, government crackdowns and the current crisis for the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad deepening by the day, a confident mood is in the air that the once unthinkable may soon be a reality – the end of the Syrian Baathist dictatorship. Nowhere in Syria will this dawn be heralded more than in Syrian [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>al-Assad’s Baathist regime tries to dampen raging fires</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2011/04/al-assads-baathist-regime-tries-to-dampen-raging-fires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syria issues decree to grant historic citizenship to stateless Kurds and reaches out to the long repressed minority knowing that the Kurds can serve its knock-out blow. However, with the regime reeling, is it a case of too little too late? If ever a regime was frantically trying to dampen fires before they rage, it [&#8230;]]]></description>
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