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		<title>&#8216;Dink murder impossible in present-day Turkey&#8217;</title>
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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>&#8216;Turkish TV can&#8217;t cover the news&#8217;</title>
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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>Ankara wants monument Algerian war of independence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – The mayor of the Turkish capital Ankara is determined to erect a monument in his city to remember the atrocities committed by France during the Algerian war of independence. The monument will be placed right in front of the French embassy. The mayor, Melih Gökcek, told daily Hürriyet: ‘The monument will have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French bill doesn&#8217;t help genocide debate in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – In Turkey it is feared that the bill passed today in France making it illegal to deny the Armenian genocide of 1915 will damage the level of debate on the topic in Turkey. The debate had been slowly making progress over the last couple of years. Calling the Armenian genocide ‘genocide’ no longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Erdogan apologizes for Dersim massacres</title>
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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>Turkey supports Syrian opposition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – Turkey supports both armed as peaceful Syrian opposition, and offers both groups the possibility to operate from Turkey. The peaceful Syrian National Council might open an office in Turkey soon. The armed Free Syrian Army operates with Turkish military protection from a refugee camp in the border province of Hatay. The Free Syrian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Aid to Kurdish municipalities delayed’</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/politics/aid-to-kurdish-municipalities-delayed%e2%80%99_2519/</link>
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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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		<title>&#8216;Deep state’ costs former Turkish minister 5 years in jail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – The former Turkish Minister of Internal Affairs, Mehmet Agar, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Turkish court for involvement in the ‘Susurluk scandal’. In this scandal of the mid-nineties, the connections between the government, armed forces and organized crime, also known as the ‘deep state’, first became evident. Agar was [...]]]></description>
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