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		<title>Dutch in Turkey: &#8216;I want to go home&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Live in Turkey with your loved one: very romantic of course. Or is real life tougher than that? Yes. For Maaike, Ralph, Barbara and Charlene there is hardly any romance left. They want to return to Holland. (more pictures will be published later!) Maaike Dekkers (31) lives in Evrenseki on the south coast: ‘IF WE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish opposition has new leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 21:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – Turkey’s biggest opposition party, the CHP, has a new leader after eighteen years. Kemal Kilicdaroglu was elected chairman with a historic majority on the party’s convention on Saturday. The previous party leader, Deniz Baykal, recently stepped down after a sex scandal. The CHP congress this weekend in Ankara is already being called the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A 100 hours of living in Istanbul</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course, highlights like Aya Sofia, Blue Mosque and Topkapi palace are definitely worth a visit, but after that of course you want to get away from the crowds of tourists. Strolling through city parks where no tourists come, to a traditional drink and dinner room, and to a neighbourhood hamam instead of to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The promised land &#8211; refugees in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey is trying to bring its laws on refugees into line with Europe’s. In the meantime, refugees and asylum seekers who reach safety in Turkey live in a legal and social wasteland. (published December 2009) Several Turkish newspapers called it a disgrace last spring, when in Didim, a town on Turkey’s west coast, 65 people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armenian love</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/hoofdartikel/armenian-love_1031/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Armenian community in Turkey consists of about fifty thousand souls. It’s not easy to keep such a small community alive. Especially not for Armenians who live outside the strong Armenian community in Istanbul. A special report. Cemil and Gülestan have been married now for twenty one years. But when you see them sitting together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well covered-up</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/human-rights/well-covered-up_965/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fight between Kurdish seperatist movement PKK and the Turkish army was at its dirtiest in the nineteen-nineties. Hundreds of (alleged) PKK sympathisers were killed or disappeared without a trace. Who was responsible? It was thought “Jitem”, a secret anti-terrorism unit of the military police. The bodies were dumped in wells, fields and rivers. Now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church in the closet</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/hoofdartikel/church-in-the-closet_820/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is well known what kind of row can erupt when in Holland a new mosque is proposed to be built. But what happens when Dutch people want to build a church in Turkey? This is a story from the southern Turkish town of Alanya, stronghold of Christians who flock here for the winter months.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I prefer Turkey</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/women/i-prefer-turkey_642/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These four Turkish women grew up in the Dutch cities of Rotterdam, Hengelo, Oss and Zwolle. A few years ago, they chose to leave Holland for Turkey. Their future, they say, is in Turkey!   published in February issue Red Magazine, the Netherlands “Look!” says Arzu enthusiastically when the twilight falls in Turkey’s capital Ankara. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘I don’t trust this country’</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/politics/%e2%80%98i-don%e2%80%99t-trust-this-country-any-more%e2%80%99_604/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of March, local elections will be held in Turkey. The political contest in Diyarbakir, the biggest Kurdish city in the southeast of the country, will be one of the most exciting. Wordt Vervolgd talked to Kurdish youth there. Will the voter let his Kurdish or Islamic identity be heard at the ballot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love in a Turkish village</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/hoofdartikel/about-love-in-a-turkish-village_525/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you were born in a village on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. What would your love life look like then? And how would you make an arranged marriage work? Four women tell their story very openly. Three hundred kilometres east of Istanbul lies the village of Örenköyü. It’s a rather traditional village, like [...]]]></description>
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