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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; Democratic Opening</title>
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		<title>With new angles to the peace process in Turkey, where now for the PKK’s armed struggle?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/04/with-new-angles-to-the-peace-process-in-turkey-where-now-for-the-pkks-armed-struggle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kurdish New Year of Newroz is a traditional fuel for Kurdish nationalist fever in Turkey, often resulting in mass protests and deadly clashes with state forces. In recent years, however, it has come to represent a new democratic opening to ending the three decade old war between the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Attitude to Turkish atrocities of the past the real gauge of sentiment in the future</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kurdish position in Turkey is a far-cry from decades of denial, persecution and second class status but has Turkey comes to terms with its past policies? The carnival atmosphere last week in Diyarbakir with Kurdistan President Massaud Barzani side-by-side with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and famous Kurdish artists was an unprecedented event. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Turkish-Kurdish peace process at a critical juncture</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As ever in the Middle East, the concept of destruction can take mere seconds and construction many years. It may take years, decades or even centuries to strike peace, resolve sectarian, ethnic or political rifts or reach consensus whilst a single bullet, bombing or event can quickly lead back to square one. In the face [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>In the new Turkey, how happy is the one who says &#8220;I am a Turk or a Kurd”</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2013/02/in-the-new-turkey-how-happy-is-the-one-who-says-i-am-a-turk-or-a-kurd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Imrali peace process in Turkey has created an environment, support base and sense of expectancy that has never been seen before. There is great hope that the new bridge building initiative will lead to the ultimate quest of long-term peace, laying down of arms and a new chapter in the history of the Turkish [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish opposition in historical step to end Kurdish insurgency</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/06/turkish-opposition-in-historical-step-to-end-kurdish-insurgency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historical talks between the Turkish opposition party CHP and ruling AKP promises much, but without a change in ideology and outdated principles and new tangible measures, can a new political process really achieve a different end result? While Turkey’s current Kurdish policy is a far-cry from the dark days of the past, its “democratic openings” [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dialog is the way forward for stability and prosperity</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2011/07/dialog-is-the-way-forward-for-stability-and-prosperity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Turkish parliament stutters to a start, Kurds demand wholesale measures not piecemeal gestures The recent national elections in Turkey were historic for the AKP as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan secured a landslide visctory and a third term, and many had hoped would also be historic for the future face of  Turkey. However, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A referendum on the taste for change and the historical foundations of Turkey</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2010/09/a-referendum-on-the-taste-for-change-and-the-historical-foundations-of-turkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a country seemingly in transition and an ideological tangle between its historical roots and the reformists intending to drag Turkey into the new millennia, the vote over constitutional amendments held extra significance. Many had perceived the vote as a referendum on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself and the thermostat by which to gauge [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As its National Pride is Wounded, Turkey Invariably Points the Finger at the Iraqi Kurds</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2008/10/as-its-national-pride-is-wounded-turkey-invariably-points-the-finger-at-the-iraqi-kurds/</link>
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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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