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	<description>Frederike Geerdink's weblog</description>
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		<title>More democracy? Abolish the CHP!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine, you don’t know too much about Turkey’s past and present, and you read this opinion article that opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu wrote yesterday in the Washington Post. He writes about how ‘the AKP is systematic and ruthless in its persecution of any opposition to its policies’, and uses the sentence: ‘Turkey today is a country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Catch 22 of finding the truth about mass graves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘You can’t go there’, two police officers in a car tell us. I pretend to be a tourist and say: ‘But I know the view from there is so nice, why can’t we go and see it, I was here before with no problem’. ‘Maybe so’, they reply, ‘but now you can’t go.’ I smile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bosporus fish, or: fishermen as easy target</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An utterly sad low in the trouble over fishing the Bosporus: the head of a fishermen’s cooperative was shot because he opposed the way some of his colleagues scrape the Bosporus fishing grounds with their nets, contributing to certain fish becoming extinct. The man lost his left eye. It’s about time the government takes responsibility. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A kiss on the cheek</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gay men in the film Zenne Dancer kiss on the cheek, not on the mouth. The only time they go further than that is when they need photographs of gay sex, to convince a military committee they are actually gay and for that reason get exempt from doing their military service (which is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rakel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Armenians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conference on the history of the Diyarbakir region, held last November in Diyarbakir, came to an end. The final word would be for Rakel Dink, widow of Hrant. The Hrant Dink Foundation was one of the organizers of the conference. She came forward, and whereas everybody expected a speech, she started to sing. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To be blunt: your favourite correspondent needs funds!</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/to-be-blunt-your-favourite-correspondent-needs-funds_2801/</link>
		<comments>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/to-be-blunt-your-favourite-correspondent-needs-funds_2801/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s going well with the visitor numbers of this website. Since it was launched in 2007 the numbers have grown from 15 (my parents and a handful of friends and colleagues) to 30,000 a month now, and 50,000 if I include the Dutch version. I am reaching an ever-growing public in not only my home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uludere two weeks later &#8211; a sweep up</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/uludere-two-weeks-later-a-sweep-up_2783/</link>
		<comments>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/uludere-two-weeks-later-a-sweep-up_2783/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 28 December 35 civilians died in an air strike of the Turkish army. The victims came from the villages of Gülyazi and Ortasu, in the district Uludere in the southeastern province of Sirnak. In two weeks time, I wrote seven stories about it. Some of them are based on what I saw and heard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voices of violence</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/voices-of-violence_2760/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The verdict is there: RojTV, the Kurdish TVchannel broadcasting from Belgium with a Danish license, will not be closed. Good news! A victory for the freedom of speech. Having said that, I deeply wish for RojTV to disappear naturally, or at least to radically change. I have the same wish for many Turkish TVchannels. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who saved the governor?</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/who-saves-the-governour_2739/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Look’, says C., one of the people I went to Uludere with this week, pointing to the side of the road. ‘That’s where the governor ran down to, remember?’ I do remember; I saw the footage. The governor of the Uludere district came to the Gülyazi and Roboski villages to console the families of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He went for a computer</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/he-went-for-a-computer_2732/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(I went to Gülyazi this week, one of the villages in the Uludere district where 35 villagers got killed in an airstrike of the Turkish army. Read this news agency article I wrote about it here, and a blog post here.) In the old days, says one of the smugglers, there were no stones at [...]]]></description>
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