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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; Syria</title>
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		<title>Who represents Kurds at Syria peace talks?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2017/01/who-represents-kurds-at-syria-peace-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swiftly after the last rebels were evacuated in Aleppo as Syrian forces took full control, a new ceasefire was orchestrated by Russia, Iran, and Turkey intending to a fresh round of peace talks in Kazakhstan. Though, the dominant Syrian Kurdish political party, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), along with its military wing, the Kurdish People&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As Turkey frantically jockeys to tarnish Syrian Kurds, can the U.S. afford to abandon the Kurds?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/02/as-turkey-frantically-jockeys-to-tarnish-syrian-kurds-can-the-u-s-afford-to-abandon-the-kurds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Kurds omitted from Geneva III as US and Russian jockey to build bases in Syrian Kurdish territory</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/01/kurds-omitted-from-geneva-iii-as-us-and-russian-jockey-to-build-bases-in-syrian-kurdish-territory/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/01/kurds-omitted-from-geneva-iii-as-us-and-russian-jockey-to-build-bases-in-syrian-kurdish-territory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Geneva 3]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Syrian war enters its 6th year, months of preparation to cultivate another round of negotiations between Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian opposition could still unravel. Just days before the talks were due to commence, there is fervent debate on who should attend the talks as well as various other pre-conditions still been set. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As UK and Germany vote for military intervention, the Paris tragedy should not overshadow years of brutal suffering and atrocities in Syria</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/12/as-uk-and-germany-vote-for-military-intervention-the-paris-tragedy-should-not-overshadow-years-of-brutal-suffering-and-atrocities-in-syria/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/12/as-uk-and-germany-vote-for-military-intervention-the-paris-tragedy-should-not-overshadow-years-of-brutal-suffering-and-atrocities-in-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The vicious Islamic State (IS) coordinated attacks in Paris last month dominated the media and sent shockwaves across Western capitals. Just this week, governments of the United Kingdom and Germany voted to intervene militarily in Syria owed strongly to the events in Paris. But while media and public discussion has been dominated by the threat [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian support and “red carpet” welcomes underscore realities on fate of Assad</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/10/russian-support-and-red-carpet-welcomes-underscore-realities-on-fate-of-assad/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/10/russian-support-and-red-carpet-welcomes-underscore-realities-on-fate-of-assad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after what the United States deemed as a “red carpet welcome” for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after his symbolic visit to Moscow, US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov as well as the foreign ministers of Turkey and Saudi Arabia met for talks in Vienna. With Russia joining the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How the tragic fate of Aylan Kurdi epitomized the suffering of millions and Western failure in Syria</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/09/how-the-tragic-fate-of-aylan-kurdi-epitomized-the-suffering-of-millions-and-western-failure-in-syria/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/09/how-the-tragic-fate-of-aylan-kurdi-epitomized-the-suffering-of-millions-and-western-failure-in-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2015 10:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a tragic conflict where thousands have been massacred and millions displaced under barbaric conditions, a single image sent a more overpowering reminder of the miserable fate and sheer suffering of so many. The tragic picture of Aylan Kurdi, a 3 year-old Syrian Kurdish boy, washed up face down on a Turkish beach, took the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons of Yugoslavia in the unraveling of the Middle East</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2013/10/lessons-of-yugoslavia-in-the-unraveling-of-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2013/10/lessons-of-yugoslavia-in-the-unraveling-of-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2013 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The expanding Middle Eastern conflict in recent years and the merging of sectarian and ethnic front-lines may seem like a recent phenomenon, but in reality it is anything but that. The unraveling of the sociopolitical map of the Middle East is a by-product of the gradual end to dictatorships, which were an almost necessary ingredient [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As the Middle-East unravels, Kurdistan displays its new leverage</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/08/as-the-middle-east-unravels-kurdistan-displays-its-new-leverage/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/08/as-the-middle-east-unravels-kurdistan-displays-its-new-leverage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bashdar.co.uk/?p=387</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Increasing Turkish dependence on KRG as a factor of peace and stability in the region. Kurdistan Region is no longer a threat but a ticket for Turkish stability, economic prosperity and to maintain their strategic influence in the ever-changing dynamics of conflict-torn Middle East. Turks and Kurds have always been natural allies. It may have [&#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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