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	<title>Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news and weblog about Turkey and Istanbul</title>
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	<description>Frederike Geerdink's weblog</description>
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		<title>Poisonous film</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/hoofdartikel/poisonous-film_341/</link>
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		<title>The anger of the juvenile judge</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/human-rights/the-anger-of-the-juvenile-judge_329/</link>
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		<title>Guys in diving suits</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/afternoon-walk_334/</link>
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		<title>Not hurt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe, just maybe, something positive might come out of the sexual abuse case that has attracted a lot of attention lately. It involves the rape of a 14 year old girl by Hüseyin Üzmez, a columnist of a national daily newspaper. He was arrested a few months ago but was released from prison recently because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/not-hurt_322/</link>
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		<title>True colours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turks must be happy now that Obama has won. At least the latest polls showed that the majority of Turks would prefer Obama to be president rather than McCain. Not so surprising, but let&#8217;s now compare both (former) candidates on their stance regarding the Armenian issue. Armenians in diaspora in the USA strongly advocate a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/true-colours_319/</link>
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		<title>The attraction of a Turkish school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dutch-Turkish teenagers still move to Turkey to attend secondary school, to let them get acquainted with Turkish culture more thoroughly, to prevent them from going astray, but mostly because over there they have a better chance of getting a good education. Sema (16): “I came here to concentrate on my studies.”
(published in Volkskrant Magazine, weekly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/the-attraction-of-a-turkish-school_311/</link>
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		<title>A heartfelt applause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An intense weekend it was. I went to Diyarbakir, biggest city in the southeast of Turkey, to visit a sit-in protest by pro-Kurdish party DTP. They were protesting not only the (lack of) policies to deal with the problems of the Kurdish southeast of Turkey, but also the (alleged) mistreatment of Öcalan. The PKK-leader is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/a-heartfelt-applause_308/</link>
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		<title>The republic&#8217;s direction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s the Republic’s birthday today. It was born 85 years ago out of the remains of the Ottoman Empire. To turn Turkey into a modern, western nation state, that was Atatürk’s aim, and that’s what he accomplished. For days now, there have been banners over the streets and on bridges, wishing people a happy ‘cumhuriyet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/the-republics-direction_304/</link>
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		<title>Down on my knees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just had a fight on the phone with some guy from IS Bankasi. He maintained his polite manner to missus Geerdink, while I begged him on my knees (but he didn’t see that) to give me some real assistance. After going to the bank a few times to get the required numbers, codes and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/down-on-my-knees_301/</link>
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		<title>Solutions for chaos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow will be the second day of the Ergenekon trial, the case against dozens of people who tried to undermine the state and government (about whom I have already written). Monday, the first day, there was total chaos in the court room. Not enough space for the accused, family, lawyers and journalists, too much noise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/solutions-for-chaos_296/</link>
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