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[KURDISTAN COMMENTARY] Many political observers believe that such initiatives taken by the regime towards the Kurds are just another way to calm them down during this unrest and to prevent them from joining other Syrians. This is because the regime experienced the Kurdish rage a few years ago, specifically in 2004 and 2005 when hundreds of thousands of Kurds changed their cities into camps of sit-ins.

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