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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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		<title>Baby soldiers, human beings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some countries, you have child soldiers, but in Turkey, there are baby soldiers. In fact, every Turk, the myth says, is born as a soldier. Children say that every day in their pledge to the flag before they enter school: besides saying they are Turks, honest and hard working, they state they were born [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The book in the shop window</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 06:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walk down Istiklal Street and see a huge advertisement in a book shop window. ‘Historical lies of the Republic’. I step back and look again. A book critical of the truths of the Turkish state through the decades? And it’s advertised that prominently? Then I see the sales slogan accompanying the book: ‘Documented answers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soldier on trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two soldiers will go on trial. They accidently shot another soldier while they were on duty in the South-Eastern province of Adiyaman. They saw a shadow, thought they were being attacked by the PKK and started shooting. The army has now revealed that the soldiers* were not trained well enough. My heart breaks when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The hope of the CHP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like in every Turkish election rally, there was a sea of flags. This time, last Saturday, they were the red flags of the CHP, the Republican People’s Party, and blue flags with the portrait of the party’s leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. CHP supporters waved their flags to the rhythm of the music played. Stimulating election songs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walk to the fallen soldiers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After one and a half hours of walking silently in the snow, the group arrives at a mass grave. The grave is old, the group is young: 45 boy and girl scouts are here to pay their respects to Ottoman soldiers who froze to death in the Battle of Sarikamis, fought in December 1914 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egged</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throwing eggs: Turkish students are good at it and getting better. This week they brought down an ‘egg rain’ on AKP MP Burhan Kuzu, member of a parliamentary commission that advises on constitutional change. He came to the Political Science Faculty of Ankara University, and was welcomed by the ‘Egg Throwing Collective’. Dozens of eggs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A man at age seven</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was proud and brave the whole day, smiling and dancing like he was supposed to do. But at the end, he cried and clung to his mother for comfort. All the tension of the day, all the excitement of what had just happened, it was just too much. Cenker is seven, and he just [...]]]></description>
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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>Working in Havana</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/working-in-havana-2_1344/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 08:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was quiet in Havana, early Friday evening. The afternoon quests had gone, the staff were eating their dinner and getting ready for the night. In a few hours the tourists would come in – young men, but mainly young women. I couldn’t stay to see it: I had to catch a night bus that [...]]]></description>
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