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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>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>Who saved the governor?</title>
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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>
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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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		<title>The village guards of Uludere</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I went to Gülyazi, one of the villages in the Uludere district where 35 citizens were killed by the Turkish air force. I talked to families of the victims, and to young smugglers. I’d like to share my findings on two subjects in blog posts: village guards, and smuggling as a totally normal [...]]]></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>Apology by decree</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/apology-by-decree_2626/</link>
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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>History and tear gas in Diyarbakir</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve often wondered about the use of tear gas against Kurds who for example demonstrate or attend a funeral of PKK members. You sometimes hear that the police ‘just started’ throwing tear gas bombs, but is that really the case? As of yesterday I can say: yes, that is really the case. I’m in Diyarbakir [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brave step</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’re counting around eighty deaths this last week. In the early hours of Wednesday the PKK killed 24 Turkish soldiers, on Tuesday five soldiers died, and now the Turkish army is hunting down the perpetrators and has, they claim, killed around fifty of them. It is totally obvious that this will only lead to more [...]]]></description>
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