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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>Happy Kurds in Denderleeuw</title>
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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>Uludere victims’ families don’t want compensation</title>
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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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		<title>&#8216;Turkish TV can&#8217;t cover the news&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/politics/turkish-tv-cant-cover-the-news_2713/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – Turkish journalists are getting more frustrated about the increasing censorship in their country. Whenever there is big news concerning the fight against the Kurdish PKK, immediately the phone calls from the government in Ankara start coming in with instructions. And so it was this morning, after the news that dozens of civilians were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey detains journalists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – Early Tuesday morning in several Turkish cities a total of at least eighteen journalists were detained. The raids are part of an investigation of people who are active in Kurdish political and public organisations, which has been going on for years. One of the detained journalists is Mustafa Özer, photographer for the international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey: from one dictatorship to the other</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/human-rights/from-one-dictatorship-to-the-other_2588/</link>
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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>Erdogan apologizes for Dersim massacres</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/politics/erdogan-apologizes-for-dersim-massacres_2662/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – The Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has apologized on behalf of the state for the massacres in the eastern province of Dersim, in 1937 and 1938. Around 13,000 men, women and children died in the massacres. Goal of the operation was to bring the rebellious province under the control of the republic. The discussion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Aid to Kurdish municipalities delayed’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – Although the earthquake in the east of Turkey intensifies brotherhood between Turks and Kurds, on the other hand ethnic tensions are rising. Saban Isiktas, working for the Istanbul office of pro-Kurdish party BDP: ‘There are rumours that the aid to Van is being delayed because Van is governed by the BDP and not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PKK attack hampers work on new Turkish constitution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL (ANP) – “Our revenge will be great”, stated the Turkish president Abdullah Gül after PKK attacks in the country’s south east. The attacks on several police and army posts left 24 soldiers dead and 22 wounded. Turkish ground troops crossed the border with Northern Iraq for the first time since 2008 in pursuit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kurdish party ends boycott of parliament</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – The pro-Kurdish party BDP is ending its boycott of the Turkish parliament. The MP’s will take their oath on Saturday, at the opening of the parliamentary year, the party announced on Wednesday. The BDP members refused to take their seats after the elections in June because some of their group members had not [...]]]></description>
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