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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; Kurdistan</title>
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		<title>Rise in oil prices should not mask economic cracks and need for reform in Kurdistan</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/03/rise-in-oil-prices-should-not-mask-economic-cracks-and-need-for-reform-in-kurdistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2016 08:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oil is the paradoxical treasure and curse. For oil producing countries, exporting oil at a high price normally results in revenue windfalls with enough to assemble large cash reserves. But this is where the oil curse strikes. It becomes too easy to rely on your immense oil reserves as a simple and effective source of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The time of the Kurds &#8211; rewriting the wrongs of history after 100 years of Sykes-Picot</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/02/the-time-of-the-kurds-rewriting-the-wrongs-of-history-after-100-years-of-sykes-picot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If any nation was befitting of holding an independence referendum months shy of a century since the Sykes-Picot agreement that artificially divided the Middle East then it’s the Kurds. 100 years later and the Kurds continue to suffer the implications of the selfish imperial interests that carved the region into spheres of control and influence. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Allies Must Help Kurdistan in Economic Downturn</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/01/the-allies-must-help-kurdistan-in-economic-downturn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With plunging oil prices, fight against Islamic State and thousands of refugees, allies must support Kurdistan but financial aid should be coupled with reforms Oil is a black gold that all is too great when prices are sky-high. It can easily balance the national budgets of many a country. At the same time, an inefficient [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>With strategic standing compromised by deepening crises, Kurdistan must look firmly forwards, not backwards</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/10/with-strategic-standing-compromised-by-deepening-crises-kurdistan-must-look-firmly-forwards-not-backwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2015 13:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The political fallout in Kurdistan that has snowballed in recent weeks could not have come at a worse juncture for Kurdistan. The deep crises surrounding Kurdistan, including the bitter fight against Islamic State (IS), crippling fiscal constraints and a huge influx of refugee’s demands political unity. However, as the current government has struggled to make [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of unity crippling the Kurdish hand amidst an unprecedented juncture</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/10/lack-of-unity-crippling-the-kurdish-hand-amidst-an-unprecedented-juncture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protests across Kurdistan, some turning violent, over delayed salaries and the continued stalemate between the five main political parties over the presidency have compounded an already difficult situation gripping Kurdistan. If the ongoing war with the Islamic State (IS), lack of budget payments from Baghdad, plummeting oil prices further constricting revenues and not forgetting the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Kurdistan’s hour of reckoning</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/08/kurdistans-hour-of-reckoning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2015 08:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the Kurdistan Region has risen in prominence and prosperity on a continuous basis. The region was transformed in a short period of time but no project is ever smooth-sailing in the volatile Middle East and Kurdistan faces new obstacles and perils that threaten to derail its development. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Independent oil exports &#8211; a new leaf for Kurdistan Region and International Oil Companies?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/08/independent-oil-exports-a-new-leaf-for-kurdistan-region-and-international-oil-companies/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/08/independent-oil-exports-a-new-leaf-for-kurdistan-region-and-international-oil-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2015 08:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting on more than 45 billion barrels of oil reserves, Kurdistan has enormous potential but with the region also awash with great problems, it has faced a difficult predicament. A deadly war with the Islamic State along an extended frontline and the reality of housing 1.8 million refugees is only made worse with the long [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As Peshmerga continue advance on Mosul, Kurds repaid with no seat at international anti-Islamic State conference</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/01/as-peshmerga-continue-advance-on-mosul-kurds-repaid-with-no-seat-at-international-anti-islamic-state-conference/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/01/as-peshmerga-continue-advance-on-mosul-kurds-repaid-with-no-seat-at-international-anti-islamic-state-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Islamic State (IS) launched rapid attacks on Mosul, Tikrit and large swathes of Iraq, the well-equipped and sizeable Iraqi army wilted away. Ironically, IS took large quantities of US-supplied heavy weaponry and laid siege on more Iraqi cities and then Kurdistan. The United States led coalition has spent billions and several hundred air-strikes [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>2014 in review – a year that will long echo in the history of Kurdistan</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2014/12/2014-in-review-a-year-that-will-long-echo-in-the-history-of-kurdistan/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2014/12/2014-in-review-a-year-that-will-long-echo-in-the-history-of-kurdistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2014 proved a remarkable year for Kurdistan that will long serve in the memory and echo for many generations to come. Kurdistan started the year on a historic footing with oil flowing, stored and read to sell via its new oil pipelines to Turkey. It completed a symbolic quest for self-sufficiency and opened a new [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How the struggle for Kobane transformed the regional dynamic</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2014/11/how-the-struggle-for-kobane-transformed-the-regional-dynamic/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2014/11/how-the-struggle-for-kobane-transformed-the-regional-dynamic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why Kobane is so strategic for the US, there are no civilians left there”, bemoanedthe disillusionedTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after the US conducted multiple aidrops of military and medical supplies to the Syrian Kurdish YPG forces. Whilst Turkey has downplayed the significance of the small town, Kobane has become a symbol [&#8230;]]]></description>
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