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		<title>As Turkey frantically jockeys to tarnish Syrian Kurds, can the U.S. afford to abandon the Kurds?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Kurdish-led forces were rejoicing the capture of the strategically important town of al-Shadadi from the Islamic State (IS), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on a frantic mission to pressure Washington to abandon support for the People&#8217;s Protection Units (YPG) and label the Democratic Union Party (PYD) as terrorists. Erdogan’s call to Barrack Obama [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>US softening stance on Assad epitomizes failed foreign policy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In February, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura controversially claimed in a press that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “…is part of the solution”. Then a short while later in March, US Secretary of State, John Kerry, caused more controversy when declaring in an interview that “we have to negotiate in the end” with Assad. While both [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey’s new saviour role in the region undercut by its refusal to resolve age-old issue at home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkish support of Palestinian statehood and human rights in the Middle East is all the more ironic as the real issue of the region, a solution to the Kurdish national struggle is overlooked. As Turkey attempts to accelerate itself as a reborn champion of the Middle East, at the same time its highly anticipated “Democratic [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing polarisation of Turkey deepened by a policy of no-peace and no-war</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The promise of progression in the Kurdish opening and a true resolution to Turkey’s age old Kurdish dilemma has slowly disintegrated. Rather than a positive climate that should been created by AKP’s historic success at the recent elections with anticipation of democratic reform and a new constitution combined by a record number of Kurdish PM’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As its National Pride is Wounded, Turkey Invariably Points the Finger at the Iraqi Kurds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkish military and political leaders squarely accused the Iraqi Kurds of having an indirect hand in the latest deadly showdown between PKK rebels, reportedly resulting in the death of 15 Turkish soldiers and 23 Kurdish rebels, and countless wounded. Perhaps, it was the daring nature of the daytime attack near the border that shocked the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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