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	<description>Frederike Geerdink's weblog</description>
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		<title>Massive commemoration of murdered journalist</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/human-rights/massive-commemoration-of-murdered-journalist_2830/</link>
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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>Life imprisonment for ordering Dink murder</title>
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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>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>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>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>PKK attack hampers work on new Turkish constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/politics/pkk-attack-hampers-work-on-new-turkish-constitution_2478/</link>
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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>Turkey finds Israeli soldiers via Facebook</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/turkey-finds-israeli-soldiers-via-facebook_2426/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – The Turkish secret service made a list of 174 names of Israeli soldiers involved in the attack on the Mavi Marmara aid ship to Gaza last year, using Facebook to identify them. In that incident nine Turkish citizens died and about thirty people were wounded. Daily newspaper Sabah published the list on Monday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Deep state’ costs former Turkish minister 5 years in jail</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/politics/deep-state%e2%80%99-costs-former-turkish-minister-5-years-in-jail_2399/</link>
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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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