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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 13:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Esra wants to take me to the local shop. I’m not sure why, but she insists and takes me by the hand. In the shop I want to buy her and her sister a notebook because they want to practice their writing all the time. But she doesn’t like it. She wants a gold coloured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expat Turks can vote abroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – The Turkish parliament has adopted a law on Wednesday that allows Turks living abroad to vote from their country of residence. About 2.5 million voters are affected, according to Turkish media reports. The law was handled as a ‘fundamental law’, which made speedy adoption by parliament possible. No opposition party opposed the law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transplant competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 16:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Need a transplant of a face, womb, legs or arms? Come to Turkey, where university hospitals are trying their best to help you out. You might lose your limbs again or even your life following the procedure, but then at least you can be sure the doctors were able to get more experience while they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swimming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 06:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m in south-east Turkey and I’m swimming. That sounds kind of funny because there’s not much sea around here, but what I mean is: I’m swimming work-wise. I have this huge project under my hands that has no deadline and no word limit (well, 80 to 90,000 words can’t be called a limit, right?), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The KCK case theatre</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thing I remember most is the atmosphere in the court room. Not angry, not frustrated, but, amazingly enough, relaxed. Even though we are talking about one of the big show trials in Turkish history. At the beginning of this month a series of hearings started in the case against dozens of prominent Kurdish politicians, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The queen and the pioneer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Gül paid an official visit to the Netherlands this week, to commemorate 400 years of diplomatic ties between the two countries. The Queen and the President both disappointed and surprised me. 1. You could say the visit was a bit overshadowed by our national clown and racist politician, Geert Wilders. He was against the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Netherlands go where Turkey is coming from</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Abdullah Gül has no right to speak”, I hear all the time as a reaction to President Gül resisting the ideology of Dutch politician Geert Wilders, which discriminates against people and marginalises them. That’s because Gül has a problem handling minorities in his own country, the argument goes. Kurds and Christians in general and Armenians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zehra</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I was in a bar in Istanbul with some Dutch people and some Turks. One of the Turkish women started to talk about some family affair, in which supernatural powers played a big role. Call me unfriendly, but I just can’t let that pass easily, especially after two, three glasses of wine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The wrong discussion about tear gas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘It’s not harmful’, Interior Affairs minister Sahin said, referring to tear gas. Still, over the last couple of years, seven people have died in Turkey from the effects of tear gas. For example: two had a heart attack after they were sprayed with tear gas, one died after a tear gas canister hit his head. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrest warrent for coup participants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL – In Turkey on Thursday morning arrest warrants were issued for the perpetrators of the ‘post-modern coup’ that ended the government of Prime Minister Erbakan in 1997. House searches were carried out at more than 31 addresses, according to Turkish media reports. The arrest warrants concern 31 high, now retired, military officials, among them [...]]]></description>
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