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		<title>Wildest implications</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I am most certainly not getting into the judicial details. The news is plainly that the Constitutional Court annulled parts of changes that the government made to the constitution, and that the remaining changes will be put to a referendum in September. This referendum will be a test case for governing party AKP: how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Tayyip</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/no-tayyip_1400/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘There are people’, I read in the statement by the organizers of a Twitter protest, ‘who are not afraid to say they don’t approve of the way the country is being managed by the Prime Minister.’ An intriguing sentence. Let me tell you first what the protest was about. Yesterday during the day and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new and strong Kurdish initiative</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s getting out of hand again in Turkey’s south-east: this weekend a total of 12 soldiers died. That’s more than fifty soldiers killed since the end of April. Over the last four months, 130 PKK fighters have been killed – according to the Turkish army, so let’s call that ‘unconfirmed’. Opposition leaders try to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel and Turkey</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/israel-and-turkey_1365/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit it: since the attack on the aid flotilla heading for Gaza, I’ve been puzzled what to write about it. Usually, I have to let things sink in a little bit before I can formulate an opinion, a way of looking at things, an analysis of what’s going on. But this time, it’s hard. [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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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>50 years later</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/50-years-later_1353/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 20:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was 50 years ago today, May 27th, that the first military coup took place in Turkey. President Celal Bayar, Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and others were arrested, put on trial and sentenced to death. In September 1961 Menderes and two of his ministers were hanged. Bayar’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. The trials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hold on to power</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/hold-on-to-power_1316/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 10:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is so much speculation going on about ‘the sex tapes’ of Deniz Baykal, that I eagerly add my own speculation: Baykal put the video online himself. It looks like the whole scandal will strengthen Baykal’s position as CHP leader. The facts are: Deniz Baykal, CHP leader since 1992, stepped down as leader of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free will</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/free-will_1309/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 11:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘The deputies exercised their free will’, said Prime Minister Erdogan yesterday. He said it after one of the most important constitutional reforms (about making it more difficult to close political parties) was not adopted by parliament. The reform needed 330 votes to be part of a referendum package later this year, but it got only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sugar coating</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/sugar-coating_1245/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it’s safe to say there is going to be a referendum in Turkey at the end of June or the beginning of July. The referendum will be about the package of constitutional reforms that the AKP is about to send to parliament. The package will most likely not get the required two thirds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not the right time</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/not-the-right-time_1228/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Minorities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Roma even cried with happiness during their meeting with Prime Minister Erdogan this weekend. It was the first time ever a Turkish Prime Minister addressed a large group of Roma directly and vowed to solve the problems they face: discrimination, and a lack of education and good housing. The 12,000 Roma who attended came [...]]]></description>
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