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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; Kurds</title>
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		<title>Interview with Shargh Newspaper (Printed in Tehran, Iran)</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/08/interview-with-shargh-newspaper-printed-in-tehran-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2015 21:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#8211; Interview with Shargh Newspaper (Printed in Tehran, Iran) Please note: the interview was conducted in English but translated to Farsi (Persian) for the print edition of Shargh newspaper. The links to the Farsi version are listed below: http://www.sharghdaily.ir/1394/05/18/Main/PDF/13940518-2367-11-24.pdf (Newspaper Print Edition) http://tinyurl.com/nmnst2z (Website Edition) 1-Recently, some newspapers near AKP have expressed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>At the forefront of the war on Islamic State, yet Arab suspicions of Kurds highlight failed state</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/02/at-the-forefront-of-the-war-on-islamic-state-yet-arab-suspicions-of-kurds-highlight-failed-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Months of fierce fighting and several hundred coalition air-strikes later, the Islamic State (IS) finds itself largely on the defensive, but as a spate of attacks across Iraq clearly showed in recent days, IS is an adaptive and determined organization that is far from a finished force. As recent Peshmerga advances around Mosul threatened to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Nelson Mandela’s virtues of peace, struggle and forgiveness in the Kurdish question</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2013/12/nelson-mandelas-virtues-of-peace-struggle-and-forgiveness-in-the-kurdish-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace&#8221; – Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela, who died at the age of 95, will forever remain an icon of justice, peace, patience and perseverance. His life was a journey against the odds underlined by determination, belief and passion for the cause. In a remarkable transformation, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kurdish angle a paramount part of any Middle Eastern debate</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2013/09/the-kurdish-angle-a-paramount-part-of-any-middle-eastern-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The much heralded “Arab Spring” has swiftly morphed into an Arab nightmare. The successive lauded popular uprisings across the Middle East were to an extent only the end of the beginning and not a quick-fire solution to the complex network of Middle Eastern disputes. The aftermath of the Arab Spring has been far bloodier, protracted [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>PKK enjoys new lease on Ankara-Damascus conflict</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/04/pkk-enjoys-new-lease-on-ankara-damascus-conflict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kurdish question is manipulated by Syria as it turns to their old PKK allies to undermine an increasingly hostile Turkey and simultaneously divide the potentially decisive Kurds back home.  The Arab Spring may have stormed through a number of countries but for Syria it has not been such a straightforward transition. Syria is not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Kurds – showing a tongue with which to talk, but teeth with which to bite</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/03/kurds-showing-a-tongue-with-which-to-talk-but-teeth-with-which-to-bite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Syrian Kurds are in many ways the forgotten kindred of the Kurdish landscape that have suddenly found themselves at a centre of increasing regional and international focus. Indeed, while Kurdistan was forcibly partitioned in the selfish interest of the imperial powers at the time, the Kurdish national identity became increasingly more localised with the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The hypocrisy of the Arab Spring as the Kurds are left to fend alone once more</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2011/08/the-hypocrisy-of-the-arab-spring-as-the-kurds-are-left-to-fend-alone-once-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If one was to foretell the collapse of three dictatorial regimes in the Middle East at the end of 2010, he would have been portrayed as somewhat of a psychotic. Such is the sheer velocity of the revolutionary whirlwind that has swept through the Arabian terrain that the question on every lip is not whether [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>For longer suffering Kurds in Syria, the boot is now on the other foot</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2011/06/for-longer-suffering-kurds-in-syria-the-boot-is-now-on-the-other-foot/</link>
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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>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2011/04/al-assads-baathist-regime-tries-to-dampen-raging-fires/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>The plight of the Syrian Kurds &#8211; the forgotten kindred</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2011/01/the-plight-of-the-syrian-kurds-the-forgotten-kindred/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2011/01/the-plight-of-the-syrian-kurds-the-forgotten-kindred/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Repression, misfortune and suffering has been a common feature of recent Kurdish history across the Middle Eastern plains but often the plight of the Syrian Kurds has been the most overlooked and forgotten &#8211; quite literally in the case of thousands of stateless Kurds. While Kurds in both Iraq and Turkey may have had more [&#8230;]]]></description>
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