{"id":2571,"date":"2017-09-18T20:41:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T20:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2017-09-18T20:41:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T20:41:46","slug":"moment-of-glory-kurdish-referenda-in-iraq-syria-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/09\/18\/moment-of-glory-kurdish-referenda-in-iraq-syria-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"MOMENT OF GLORY ? KURDISH REFERENDA IN IRAQ, SYRIA EXPLAINED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/iraq-kurds-independence-referendum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2572\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/iraq-kurds-independence-referendum-1024x672.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/iraq-kurds-independence-referendum-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/iraq-kurds-independence-referendum-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/iraq-kurds-independence-referendum-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/iraq-kurds-independence-referendum-560x367.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/iraq-kurds-independence-referendum-260x170.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/iraq-kurds-independence-referendum-160x105.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/iraq-kurds-independence-referendum.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Asia Times<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">By <a class=\"name\" title=\"Sami Moubayed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/writer\/sami-moubayed\/\">Sami Moubayed<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2005, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the then-Prime Minister of Turkey, visited Diyarbakir, a city in the country\u2019s south-east and the scene of an ongoing conflict between Turkish authorities and Kurdish separatists, who consider it the unofficial capital of Turkish Kurdistan.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to cajole the Kurds, who make up somewhere between 18 and 20% of the Turkish population, Erdogan boomed: \u201cThe Kurdish problem is everybody\u2019s problem, but above all, mine.\u201d Since then he has been trying to talk them into abandoning their guns and ending a 33-year old insurgency against the Turkish Government. Among other policies, he has lifted a long-standing ban on the use of Kurdish in Turkish media.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/article\/moment-glory-kurdish-referenda-iraq-syria-explained\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Asia Times By Sami Moubayed In 2005, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the then-Prime Minister of Turkey, visited Diyarbakir, a city in the country\u2019s south-east and the scene of an ongoing conflict between Turkish authorities and Kurdish separatists, who consider it the unofficial capital of Turkish Kurdistan. Trying to cajole the Kurds, who make up&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/09\/18\/moment-of-glory-kurdish-referenda-in-iraq-syria-explained\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MOMENT OF GLORY ? KURDISH REFERENDA IN IRAQ, SYRIA EXPLAINED<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[299,488,608,90],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-iraq","tag-kurds","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}