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		<title>Religious class</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 21:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another legal victory for parents who don’t want their kid to attend compulsory religious classes: an Istanbul court ruled that a child of atheist parents can skip the class. It’s not the first time. In 2007 the European Court for Human Rights ruled that a child with Alevi parents, (Alevism is an Islamic sect), cannot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shopping at Tekbir</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A modern, non-Islamic Turkish woman usually doesn’t go shopping at Tekbir. Tekbir? That is the fashion brand of one of the most famous designers in Turkey, Mustafa Karaduman. He designs clothes for the upcoming devout Islamic middle class of Turkey – for example the wife of president Gül wears Tekbir. It offers modern clothes, stylish, [...]]]></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[Religion]]></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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		<title>The animal must feel loved</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/the-animal-must-feel-loved_1035/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Istanbul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The man who suddenly starts talking to me is angry. ‘This is not how it’s supposed to be done’, he says, ‘this is not how it’s supposed to be done’. We are standing in a so called ‘Kurban Kesim Yeri’, an open air space designated by Istanbul municipality to butcher animals for the Feast of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News of the week</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/news-of-the-week_1016/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judiciary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to the Netherlands for a week, and even though I always intend to keep reading the Turkish papers online, I never really manage to do it: when you’re out of the country, somehow the news doesn’t get through your skull very well. Now that I am back, I’m catching up on the news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To drink or not to drink</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/to-drink-or-not-to-drink_971/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And once again the governing AKP shows it doesn’t like alcohol: a well known municipal fish restaurant on the Anatolian side of the Bosporus has decided to no longer serve alcohol. The municipality of that part of town has a new AKP mayor, and he made the decision that is all over the newspapers at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sahur at McDonalds</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/sahur-at-mcdonalds_935/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I came out of the post office, I saw a woman standing in a corner, hiding herself a bit. I looked again, and saw she was eating some kind of muesli bar. I guess she didn’t want anybody to see she was eating during Ramadan. She was wearing a headscarf. Maybe she was trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamophobia?</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/islamophobia_929/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, Arzu Erbas, a Dutch woman of Turkish descent, was killed in Amsterdam. Amsterdam local newspaper Het Parool quickly found out that the killer was probably a man of Turkish descent as well, and it could be the case that it was the father who was forbidden by court order to see his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discrimination over?</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/discrimination-over_884/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No change in the law was needed for quite a big change that was made in Turkey’s education system: the YÖK (Higher Education Board) decided that graduates from normal high schools and vocational high schools have the same chance of entering a university based on their scores in the ÖSS (on which I wrote a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Üsküdar for beginners (2): Şakirin Mosque</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/uskudar-for-beginners-2-sakirin-mosque_812/</link>
		<comments>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/uskudar-for-beginners-2-sakirin-mosque_812/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Istanbul]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since last month, Üsküdar has had a brand new masterpiece of architecture. It’s a mosque, but not just any mosque: the Şakirin Camii is designed by a woman and is the most modern, light, open and female-friendly mosque I have ever seen. It’s an absolute must-see, as is the big, huge, immense graveyard that surrounds [...]]]></description>
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