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	<description>Frederike Geerdink's weblog</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>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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		<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>
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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>Uludere two weeks later &#8211; a sweep up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>Uludere investigation, or: the potholes in our minds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intense days it have been, totally taken up by the news around the killing of 35 civilians by the Turkish air forces. Chilling details, like: 28 of the 35 deceased had the same last name, and 17 of 35 were under the age of 18. The group of smugglers always took the same route, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cemevi, and the freedom of religion</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/cemevi-and-the-freedom-of-religion_2687/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news this weekend from south-eastern Diyarbakir. The municipality joined with an Alevi organisation in a ceremony for the opening of a cemevi, a prayer house for Alevis (a liberal path in Islam). A brand new, multipurpose building where the (small) Alevi community of Diyarbakir can come together to celebrate their religion. Still, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banned book of imprisoned journalist Şık published</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog post was written by my intern Zehra Kaya. She also did all the research. The banned book of the imprisoned journalist Ahmet Şık is available in Turkish book shops starting tomorrow, 1 December. The unpublished version of the book was put online last March, with the title “The army of the imam” but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apology by decree</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s it worth, this apology that Prime Minister Erdogan made yesterday for the Dersim massacres? He said it, he actually said that he apologizes on the state’s behalf for what happened in 1937 and 1938. A novelty in Turkish politics. But at the same time it is not a novelty at all. It is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper policies won&#8217;t help womens and childrens rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Similar rulings will be out of the question from now on,’ said Minister of Justice Sadullah Ergin. He was talking about a verdict against 26 men who raped a 13 year old girl: the Supreme Court of Appeals upheld an earlier decision by a lower court to give only minimum punishments,  because the men claimed [...]]]></description>
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