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	<description>Frederike Geerdink's weblog</description>
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		<title>Dutch Turks moving &#8216;back home&#8217;: No Turk among Turks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young Dutch men and women with Turkish roots who try their luck in Turkey. Away from the political climate in the Netherlands, on the way to the country of their parents and grandparents, where the economy is flourishing and where they are fully at home. The reality is sometimes quite different. Pictures by Ahmet Polat. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch Maaike left Turkey &#8211; with her children, but without her husband</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dutch woman Maaike Dekkers (32) is married to Veli, a Turkish man. They have two sons, Semih (3) and Kaya (2). Until recently they lived together in Turkey, but last June Maaike returned to the Netherlands. With her children, but without her husband. ‘Veli knew what I gave up in the Netherlands, and why I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids in southeast Turkey: smuggling to survive</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SMUGGLING – At the end of December 35 people lost their lives in a bombardment by the Turkish army. Seventeen of them were less than 18 years old. They were smugglers, who brought diesel and sugar from Iraq to Turkey. There is a war going on in the area between Turkey and the PKK, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey: from one dictatorship to the other</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AKP government of Prime Minister Erdoğan has effectively decreased the once unlimited power of the army. The power of the judiciary was strengthened. But now that power has too strong a grip on society. Why did you visit wounded demonstrators in hospital? Why did you give interviews to so many TV and radio stations? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professional journalism? Not in Turkey!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blue murder is being cried over the lack of press freedom in Turkey. You never hear about the other side of the medal: journalists give themselves too many freedoms. Journalist Banu Güven (photo): ‘Extreme language and polarization sell.&#8217; There is a huge red board in the hallway at Hürriyet, one of the biggest papers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass circumcision, and then it&#8217;s time to party</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AKYURT – Ninetyfive boys. In four shifts they have been circumcised in a municipality mass circumcision. In the hospital, so efficient and hygienic. And now that all almost a hundred boys are competently released of their foreskin, its party time in Akyurt, a town close to the Turkish capital of Ankara. The mayor: ‘Your first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forces behind Hrant Dink’s murder remain unpunished</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Armenians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – The conviction of Ogun Samast, murderer of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink (photo), and his sentencing to almost 23 years in jail doesn’t mean the case is over. The background to the murder remains a mystery, and important persons involved remain unpunished. Soon after the murder in January 2007, suspicion arose that there were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;They always got back on their feet again&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For monthly magazine OnzeWereld (OurWorld) I regulary contribute to &#8216;Around the world&#8217;, a series in which every month another theme is reported about by several journalists around the world. For July/August the theme was the question: &#8216;Who do you take as an example in your life?&#8217;. I interviewed Delal Seven, and besides that there were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headscarf conquers Turkish parliament</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 13:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Turkish parliament has up to now been a forbidden area for women wearing a headscarf. And in the labour market women who cover their hair are discriminated against. Aynur Bayram tries to change that by standing as an independent candidate in the upcoming general elections. A hundred thousand votes. That’s how many votes Aynur [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turmoil over sex tapes in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 08:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – First they kiss rather clumsily, then a bit later they are laying on the bed together. She – a young student – on top. She moves, and he – an older, married politician – slaps her bottom. The sex videos of two politicians from the ultra nationalist National Action Party (MHP) have caused [...]]]></description>
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