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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>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>Sinterklaas for one day in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Istanbul]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – Dutch Turks who live in Turkey pass the tradition of Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) on to their children. ‘I celebrated Sinterklaas in the Netherlands when I was little, so it’s nice to get my children acquainted with it too’, says one of them, Nermin Celik (38). If you want to see ‘Sint’ in Turkey, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;At night we have some time for a social life’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go to school during the summer holidays? In Turkey that’s quite normal. Without ‘summer school’ it’s impossible to get a place at a good university.  The bell rings, the break is over. Özden Korkmaz (17) and Onur Vural (18) want to hurry off to class immediately, but reluctantly make time for a picture. ‘Now I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass circumcision, and then it&#8217;s time to party</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AKYURT – Ninetyfive boys. In four shifts they have been circumcised in a municipality mass circumcision. In the hospital, so efficient and hygienic. And now that all almost a hundred boys are competently released of their foreskin, its party time in Akyurt, a town close to the Turkish capital of Ankara. The mayor: ‘Your first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;They always got back on their feet again&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For monthly magazine OnzeWereld (OurWorld) I regulary contribute to &#8216;Around the world&#8217;, a series in which every month another theme is reported about by several journalists around the world. For July/August the theme was the question: &#8216;Who do you take as an example in your life?&#8217;. I interviewed Delal Seven, and besides that there were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey: in the tracks of the soldiers</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/turkey-in-the-tracks-of-the-soldiers_1800/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMEMORATION – Commemorate a war and fallen soldiers? In Turkey they go a bit further than two minutes of silence. Turkish scouts, for example, re-live the ice-cold conditions endured by their soldiers in the eastern mountains of the country. Fatih (16), high in the mountains in the snow: ‘The soldiers really had a tough time.’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;It’s hard in Europe, but even harder in Afghanistan’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more illegal  regufeesare trying to reach the European Union via Turkey. They secretly cross the border with Greece. Europe is doing its very best to stop the immigrants. All of a sudden it gets noisy on the inside square of the ‘detention centre’ for immigrants in Greece. About fifty young men are allowed [...]]]></description>
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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>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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