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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>Massive commemoration of murdered journalist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – In a march in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul, about forty thousand people commemorated the Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, who was assassinated exactly five years ago on Thursday. There was a lot of anger about the verdict of the judge last Tuesday, when he classified the murder as an act of individuals, rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch Maaike left Turkey &#8211; with her children, but without her husband</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/women/dutch-maaike-left-turkey-with-her-children-but-without-her-husband_2821/</link>
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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>Life imprisonment for ordering Dink murder</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/human-rights/life-imprisonment-for-ordering-dink-murder_2819/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – A Turkish ultranationalist has been sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday for ordering the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. Yasin Hayal and nineteen others were however cleared of terrorism charges. Dink was assassinated in front of the office of his newspaper in Istanbul on 19 January 2007. He was controversial among nationalist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Dink murder impossible in present-day Turkey&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/politics/dink-murder-impossible-in-present-day-turkey_2815/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – Almost five years on there is still a lot that is not clear about the shadowy network that ordered the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. However a start has been made in dealing with the ‘deep state’, the ‘state within the state’ that is widely held responsible for the killing. Thursday marks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To be blunt: your favourite correspondent needs funds!</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/to-be-blunt-your-favourite-correspondent-needs-funds_2801/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s going well with the visitor numbers of this website. Since it was launched in 2007 the numbers have grown from 15 (my parents and a handful of friends and colleagues) to 30,000 a month now, and 50,000 if I include the Dutch version. I am reaching an ever-growing public in not only my home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids in southeast Turkey: smuggling to survive</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/hoofdartikel/smuggling-to-survive_2767/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
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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>Happy Kurds in Denderleeuw</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/human-rights/the-daily-realities-of-kurdistan_2764/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denderleeuw – ‘We won!’ An employee of the Kurdish channel RojTV, broadcasting under a Danish license, enters the newsroom with a phone in his hand. He is on the line to Denmark, where the judge just announced the verdict in a case against RojTV, which is accused by the Turkish government of being a terrorist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ilker Basbug last &#8216;old fashioned&#8217; Turkish army leader</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/ilker-basbug-last-old-fashioned-turkish-army-leader_2743/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DIYARBAKIR – Ilker Basbug was the last Turkish army leader who belonged to the ‘old guard’ of Turkish army leaders. He commanded the second biggest army in NATO from 2008 to 2010, and clashed several times with the AKP government of Prime Minister Erdogan.  Basbug (68) was detained on Friday as a suspect in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uludere victims’ families don’t want compensation</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/human-rights/uludere-victims%e2%80%99-families-don%e2%80%99t-want-compensation_2726/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GÜLYAZI – The families of the 34 boys and young men killed last week in a bombing by the Turkish air force, will not consider accepting the compensation the Turkish government is offering them. Prime Minister Erdogan announced on Tuesday that within a few days he would pay the families of the men, who were [...]]]></description>
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