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		<title>A critical friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘That is, if Turkey meets the Copenhagen criteria’, says Judith Sargentini, Dutch Green Party representative in the Europarliament. She just attended the first meeting of an informal group of MEP&#8217;s who call themselves ‘Friends of Turkey’. They are pro Turkey’s accession to the European Union, but of course, not without the mantra: ‘if Turkey meets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Devastating</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prefab houses and tents are being sent to Elazig, the area in the east of Turkey that was hit by an earthquake early yesterday morning. And in the coming months, the people affected by the earthquake will have better houses than they had before. Not built of sun dried mud bricks like before, but of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real human rights concern</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Armenians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had some emails this week about the House Committee on Foreign Affairs voting on the ‘Armenian Genocide Bill’. Both groups pro and anti informed me about their stance and some asked me to write letters to the Committee to support their point of view.
Now the resolution is accepted. I always thought I was against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A normal toilet</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/a-normal-toilet_1193/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine visiting Turkey commented on a squat toilet with the words: ‘Well, things are just less hygienic in Turkey than in the Netherlands, aren’t they?’ I smiled and didn’t bother trying to convince her otherwise. I mean, she had to go back to Holland and still feel okay using public sit-down toilets, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing to fear?</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/nothing-to-fear_1185/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty nine so far, and counting. Forty nine (retired) personnel: 17 former generals, 4 navy admirals on active duty, 27 officers and one non-commissioned officer. All under arrest since Monday, because they are supposedly linked to Balyoz (Slegdehammer), an (alleged) coup plan dating from 2003 that has become part of the ongoing Ergenekon investigation.
When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poor men</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/poor-men_1179/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now and then it happens to me: I end up in a living room full of women. Last night I found myself in such a situation again: eight women between the ages of 17 and 54, and they were doing all the women’s things you can think of. One was knitting something for a baby. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fresh young flock</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some call him the only hope for leftist Turks: Mustafa Sarigül. He is the mayor of Sisli, a district in Istanbul, and he is about to start a new political party, the Turkey Change Movement. A real social democrat party, he promises, with the aim of justice and work for all.
So when the foreign press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultimate luxury</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My love and I stand on the balcony of the house he grew up in. We look out over the village. It’s been snowing, everything is white, and the sun that has made the snow sparkle all day, is slowly disappearing behind the hills. It’s cold. Then I notice that only a few houses have [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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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>Bitter journalism tears</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/bitter-journalism-tears_1149/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Indignation all around: alleged military coup plotters wanted to use journalists in their plans to overthrow the government. Daily newspaper Taraf recently revealed yet another coup plan, and it contains two lists: one of 137 names of journalists who would be asked to cooperate with the coup plotters to help create a chaotic atmosphere in [...]]]></description>
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