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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>
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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>Professional journalism? Not in Turkey!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Microsoft sends successful Turkish dealers to Mecca</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – Microsoft Turkey rewards successful dealers: for $40,000 worth of Microsoft sales, the dealer gets a ticket for the pilgrimage to Mecca. A spokes pseron of Microsoft confirms that. Every following $25,000 of sales earns the dealer another ticket for the pilgrimage, of Hajj, in November 2012. Winning a trip doesn’t make the pilgrimage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold ATM in Istanbul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – In need of gold? In the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul you can now go and get it from a ‘gold ATM’. For the small Turkish bank Kuveyt Türk, introducing a gold ATM was a logical step after specializing in the private gold market. Turks love gold: it’s the most frequently given present for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late summer time causes trouble for Turkish companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – Turkish companies will add overtime and incur extra costs because the Turkish government decided on short notice that summer time will start one day later,. In Turkey time will go forward by one hour not on Sunday night the 27th of March, but on Monday night. The reason is the university entrance exam, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Istanbul taxi drivers protest against illegal drivers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – Eighteen thousand legal taxis and at least twenty-five thousand illegal ones: Istanbul taxi drivers protested today against their unlicensed colleagues. Their most important demand was more severe punishments for illegal drivers. However, many Instanbul residents think that the licensed cabbies should first try a bit of introspection. It’s the first time that taxi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Row over press freedom in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – A restriction of the freedom of press, or simply an effort to get big businesses to pay their taxes too? A tax fine of 700 million lira (325 million euros) for tax evasion by a big newspaper publisher, has sparked a debate about press freedom in Turkey. Dogan Publishers is part of Dogan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turks get another new currency</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – For the second time in four years the Turks have to get used to new money: on the first of January, the &#8216;yeni Türk lirasi’ (new Turkish lira), which was introduced at 1 January 2005, will be a thing of the past. The word ‘yeni’ will be removed and the notes will have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Tuzla, we don’t work with wool</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shipbuilding business is growing rapidly in Turkey. Especially in Tuzla, south of istanbul, it’s powering ahead. Unfortunately the number of fatal accidents is also on the rise. The employers say: “Accidents are inevitable in this industry. Here in Tuzla we’re not working with wool.” After her husband died, nobody from his work-place came to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish gold fever</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/nature/turkish-gold-fever_181/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 10:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gold mines threaten green Turkey: even national parks are no longer safe. Villagers protest and go to court. “We expected more support from Europe.” If only it was so simple, sighs Kumsal Yenilmez, protester against the opening of more mines in the west of Turkey. A judge recently decided that a gold mine close to [...]]]></description>
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