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		<title>Kurdish Social Media Gathering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the night of the Uludere massacre, Roj TV and Kurdish Social Media played an critical role in breaking the news silence of the Turkish and International Media. &#8220;This is not like in the old times. Now is the age &#8230; <a href="http://kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/kurdish-social-media-gathering/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6092926&amp;post=3310&amp;subd=kurdistancommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CfP: The Kurds in Syria: Past, Present and Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deadline approaching&#8230; Call for proposals The Kurdish Studies Association (KSA) invites paper proposals for a KSA-sponsored panel at the Middle East Studies (MESA) meeting to be held November 17-20, 2012 in Denver, Colorado (USA). For details on the call and &#8230; <a href="http://kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/cfp-the-kurds-in-syria-past-present-and-future/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6092926&amp;post=3306&amp;subd=kurdistancommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Meshal Tammo, 1957-2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kurdish activist and opposition spokesperson for the Future Movement, Meshaal Tammo, 53, was killed when four masked gunmen stormed his house in Qamişlo and opened fire, also wounding his son, Marcel. NEWS: 07 October 2011 Kurdish Opponent of Assad  Shot &#8230; <a href="http://kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/rip-meshal-tammo-1958-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6092926&amp;post=3274&amp;subd=kurdistancommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is this what Ankara had in mind when they launched TRT6?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>AJ Stream: Turkey confronts Kurdish separatists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Kani Xulam and Ziya Meral Filed under: human rights, language, media, politics Tagged: AKP, human rights, Kurds, Nationalism, PKK, ROJ-TV, TRT6, Turkey<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6092926&amp;post=3265&amp;subd=kurdistancommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3rd Annual Kurdish Youth Festival!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.kurdishyouthfestival.org Washington, DC 06-08 January 2012 Filed under: culture, Kurdistan, language Tagged: Kurdish, Kurds, USA<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6092926&amp;post=3261&amp;subd=kurdistancommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New article on Kurdish politics in Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever read a news article that makes mention of Kurdish political parties in Syria? If so, you’ve probably been terribly confused by the many similar party names and who all the players are. Trying to sort out Kurdish &#8230; <a href="http://kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/new-article-on-kurdish-politics-in-syria/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6092926&amp;post=3236&amp;subd=kurdistancommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kurdish Studies and language classes at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter was released by MTSU yesterday announcing further development of the institution&#8217;s budding Kurdish Studies programme. Last August MTSU announced that it would begin teaching Kurdish. MTSU is only one of three universities in the US where Kurdish is &#8230; <a href="http://kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/kurdish-studies-language-mtsu/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6092926&amp;post=3250&amp;subd=kurdistancommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barzani letter to Bush urges &#8216;pressure on Turkey&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And nothing has changed&#8230; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; C O N F I D E N T I A L BAGHDAD 002474 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/26/2017 TAGS: PREL IZ TU SUBJECT: LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH FROM KURDISH REGIONAL GOVERNMENT PRESIDENT BARZANI &#8230; <a href="http://kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/barzani-letter-to-bush-urges-pressure-on-turkey/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6092926&amp;post=3245&amp;subd=kurdistancommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Democratic Opening and Illusion of Advanced Democracy in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Muharrem Erbey, president of the Diyarbakır chapter of the Human Rights Association of Turkey, writing from Diyarbakır prison Voltaire said, “those who have lost freedom it lost it because they didn’t defend it.” The American Declaration of Independence of &#8230; <a href="http://kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/the-democratic-opening-and-illusion-of-advanced-democracy-in-turkey/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdistancommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6092926&amp;post=3232&amp;subd=kurdistancommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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