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		<title>Girl imitates suicide and dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 05:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – In the Turkish city of Istanbul an 8 year old girl died Friday night while trying to imitate a suicide scene from a TV series. She was standing on her bed with her mother’s headscarf around her neck and the heating pipe, and slipped. This was reported on the website of daily paper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish press happy with Hiddink</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – The new ‘national chief’ Guus Hiddink makes it to the front pages of several Turkish newspapers. Mostly short articles, but on the sports pages there is a lot of attention for the man who, according to the headline in Vatan, ‘said ‘Yes’ for 8 million lira per year’. For one of Turkey’s biggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maker of Atatürk film sued</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – The  in Turkey well known journalist and documentary film-maker Can Dündar will be sued for the film ‘Mustafa’, a biography of Turkey’s founding father Atatürk. The film is said to insult Atatürk, as daily newspaper Vatan writes today. The documentary drew more than 1 million viewers in Turkey at the end of last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closure of websites intensifies ‘homophobic atmosphere’ in Turkey</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/politics/closure-of-websites-intensifies-%e2%80%98homophobic-atmosphere%e2%80%99-in-turkey_976/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – The closure of several internet forums for gays is another example of homophobia and a new step towards silencing gay organisations in Turkey. That’s the view of spokespersons for huge gay forums that were closed this week on the order of a government organisation. The sites seem to have been closed because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arzu Erbas an ‘angel’ in Turkish press</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – An ‘Angel of goodness,’ she is called in the Turkish press, the crèche owner of Turkish descent, Erzu Erbas, who was murdered in Amsterdam on Monday night. Several Turkish newspapers report on the Turkish émigrée and mainly focus on the fact that she helped poor people in Turkey with the income she earned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Sites closed down in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – Following a court order access to “Google Sites”, a site where people can build their own website, has been blocked in Turkey, according to several Turkish media today. The reason for the closure? Google Sites would admit sites with content insulting to Atatürk, Turkey’s founding father. Insulting Atatürk is forbidden by law in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Families of murderers flee Turkish village</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 22:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – A hundred and twenty people from twelve families have fled from Bilge, the Turkish village where on Monday night 44 people were murdered at a wedding ceremony. The families fear for their lives, as they have ties  to the gunmen and they have been threatened with revenge. Since the killings the families fleeing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey blunders with Armenian radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – The Armenian radio station which Turkish state broadcaster TRT put on the air last week is not understandable to Turkish Armenians: the broadcasts are in a dialect spoken only in Armenia. It seems it was not done on purpose, and an internal investigation has been announced into the matter, according to Friday’s Hürriyet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Criticism of Turkish authorities in Turkish papers</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/criticism-of-turkish-authorities-in-turkish-papers_597/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – Pride in the pilots of the crashed airplane and appreciation for the Dutch rescue workers in the Turkish morning newspapers, but there is also criticism: authorities in Ankara were too ready to declare that there were no fatalities to be mourned. As well, there is quite a lot of speculation over the cause of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Row over press freedom in Turkey</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/row-over-press-freedom-in-turkey_588/</link>
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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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