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	<description>Frederike Geerdink's weblog</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Stone-throwing children could be jailed for 58 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[(written for news agency ANP)
ISTANBUL – Prison sentences of up to 58 years are being demanded by prosecutors for six children aged between 13 and 16 years.  The children threw stones at the police during demonstrations in October over the alleged mistreatment in prison of PKK leader Öcalan. This is the story according to several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cook, clean and knit</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/hoofdartikel/cook-clean-and-knit_378/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the morning, she prepares breakfast for the family. Then she takes the young children to school. After that she cleans up the breakfast table, starts cleaning the house and when that’s finished, she knits for a while, till it’s time to start making dinner. Just a small glimpse into the life of a so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A tangled mess</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/a-glance-at-the-headlines_373/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Yes”, says Aylin, who helps me read the Turkish newspapers (among many other things), “I have heard that name before. Tuncay Güney, who was that again?” She looks at me, puzzled. In Milliyet, there is a story about Tuncay Güney who is somehow involved in the court case against Ergenekon. We figure out that he’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the scarf bring them together?</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/will-the-scarf-bring-them-together_366/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The answer to that question is, of course, no it will not. Prime Minister Erdogan and opposition leader Baykal will never ever become political friends, but they seemed to have found some common ground on an issue that has really divided the two men previously: women who cover themselves. Baykal publicly made a few totally covered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Win a prize!</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/win-a-prize_359/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have made an end-of-year present for magazines, organisations and people I work with. I’m not going to tell what it is now, but while I was making it something interesting happened, and I decided to turn it into a contest for visitors to my website. What happened is this. The thing I made has a front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Both city and people</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/both-city-and-people_353/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The girl in the shop where I spend too much money looks at me in shock when I tell her I’m off to Adana for the weekend. ’A whole weekend?’ she asks. I tell her yes, and she looks at me in pity. Okay okay, I say, the first time I went there, almost five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continuing financial crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/continuing-financial-crisis_349/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Everyday life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The woman in line before me in the small grocery shop at the corner of my street buys a loaf of bread, a few eggs, a bottle of water and a few tomatoes. She plays with the coins in her hand and finds she doesn’t have enough money to pay the bill of less then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poisonous film</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/poisonous-film_341/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Atatürk is depicted as a godless dictator, a coward and an arrogant, ambitious egoist who looked down on the people. Who, on top of all that, drank too much and had a weakness for women he couldn’t control. I read these critiques in an email which is being sent around the country at the moment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The anger of the juvenile judge</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/human-rights/the-anger-of-the-juvenile-judge_329/</link>
		<comments>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/human-rights/the-anger-of-the-juvenile-judge_329/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For nineteen years, Umran Tan worked as a judge in a Turkish children’s court. She expressed her frustrations about the failures of Turkish juvenile law in a much discussed short film. ‘The Turkish system directs children straight into adult law.’
(published in Amnesty Internationals monthly magazine &#8216;Wordt Vervolgd&#8217;)

Umran Tan
Istanbul – A Monday morning in October. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guys in diving suits</title>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/afternoon-walk_334/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fréderike Geerdink</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Istanbul]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m walking along the coast road by the Marmara Sea, alone with my thoughts, a fierce wind in my hair, the sun on my face. Out of the corner of my eye, I see a guy in a diving suit come out of the water, and another guy in a diving suit dragging a bag [...]]]></description>
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