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	<description>Frederike Geerdink's weblog</description>
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		<title>The economic power of the army</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 05:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six hundred. The Turkish army is running at least that number of companies. Covering banking and health insurance, car production, construction, and well, you name it and probably the Turkish army is earning money from it. Earning so much money that the army’s holding company, called Oyak, is (depending on your criteria) one the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tourists from Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/tourists-from-israel_1359/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of Israelis are cancelling their holidays in Turkey after Israel attacked the aid convoy on its way to Gaza. Flights from Tel Aviv to tourist destinations on Turkey’s south and west coast have been cancelled, and the same goes for cruise ship stopovers and hotel bookings. Turkey has for long been a popular destination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The empty hands of Tekel-workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A crate is thrown into an iron barrel and the fire flares up. But it doesn’t get really warm: the ice cold wind blows along the plastic sheeting that it is hoped will offer some protection against the weather. The group of men from Batman, in the south-east of Turkey, have been living on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old coins</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/old-coins_1095/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘I cannot take that coin’, says the dolmuş driver. He hands back the fifty kuruş coin to the passenger in the shared taxi and mumbles: ‘It’s old money, you know’. The passenger knows: as of the first of January, the ‘new Turkish lira’, which was replaced by the ‘Turkish lira’ on January 1st 2009, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New year, new prices</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/new-year-new-prices_1091/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s rather sneaky to announce tax rises on the day before they come into effect, as the Turkish government did on the last day of 2009. The rises are not small: petrol prices, already high in Turkey, went up by about 20 kuruş to 3,63 per litre (€1,70). The tax on cigarettes went op from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden treasures</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/hidden-treasures_1028/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five thousand tons of gold are hidden under Turkish pillows. Five thousand pounds, worth 180 billion dollars. I don’t know about the home-stocks in other countries, but what I do know is that Turks are good at collecting gold during their lives. Recently, at a wedding, I saw how it goes: the newly-weds stand together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty black stuff</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/dirty-black-stuff_1021/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An economic crisis and high gas prices: it’s not a good combination in winter. Because, what do people do when their income goes down and the gas prices are higher than the price of coal? Exactly: they stop using gas and throw the dirty black stuff in the heater. Optimist that I am, I always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home made wine</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/home-made-wine_960/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I like about being in ‘the village’ in Kapadokya in central Anatolia are the seasons that are defined by which kind of crop is in the center of everyday life. At the end of september, it’s grapes (and pumpkins): they are ripe and being harvested. In the streets there are horse carts with wooden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uighurs and Turks</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/uighurs-and-turks_864/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trouble in north western China is a big news item in Turkey. Of course it is bound to be, since the Uighurs are a Turkish people, just like Turkmens, like Uzbeks, Kazaks and Azeris, to name just a few. It struck me that the newspaper Hürriyet predicted the trouble a few days before it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild West in credit cards</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/wild-west-in-credit-cards_835/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine got a call from his bank some weeks ago asking if he wanted to have a credit card. No, he said, I don’t want that, because I don’t have a steady income and I’m sure I will not be able to pay the credit card debt. And what did he find [...]]]></description>
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