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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; PKK Peace Process</title>
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		<title>With new angles to the peace process in Turkey, where now for the PKK’s armed struggle?</title>
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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>Kurdish reforms in Turkey should not be weighed with grim days of the past</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just decades ago against a backdrop of assimilation policies, repression and Kurdish phobia, many of the democratic rights and freedoms that the Kurds enjoy today would have been unthinkable. Since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) assumed power in 2002, it is fair to say that the party has taken a number of bold steps [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey’s peace initiative – ensuring that once rebels drop weapons, they are not picked up again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The turn of the year has created a unique environment and momentum in Turkey for solving the age-old Kurdish question, better than any time in the history of the Turkish republic, culminating in Abdullah Ocalan’s Newroz ceasefire declaration and an on-going peace process. While the current progress and general rhetoric is certainly positive, many obstacles [&#8230;]]]></description>
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