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	<description>Frederike Geerdink's weblog</description>
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		<title>More democracy? Abolish the CHP!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine, you don’t know too much about Turkey’s past and present, and you read this opinion article that opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu wrote yesterday in the Washington Post. He writes about how ‘the AKP is systematic and ruthless in its persecution of any opposition to its policies’, and uses the sentence: ‘Turkey today is a country [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/the-abolishment-of-the-chp-as-essential-democratization-tool_2886/</link>
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		<title>The Catch 22 of finding the truth about mass graves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[‘You can’t go there’, two police officers in a car tell us. I pretend to be a tourist and say: ‘But I know the view from there is so nice, why can’t we go and see it, I was here before with no problem’. ‘Maybe so’, they reply, ‘but now you can’t go.’ I smile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/the-catch-22-of-finding-the-truth-about-mass-graves_2873/</link>
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		<title>Bosporus fish, or: fishermen as easy target</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An utterly sad low in the trouble over fishing the Bosporus: the head of a fishermen’s cooperative was shot because he opposed the way some of his colleagues scrape the Bosporus fishing grounds with their nets, contributing to certain fish becoming extinct. The man lost his left eye. It’s about time the government takes responsibility. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/fishermen-as-the-easiest-target_2868/</link>
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		<title>A kiss on the cheek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The gay men in the film Zenne Dancer kiss on the cheek, not on the mouth. The only time they go further than that is when they need photographs of gay sex, to convince a military committee they are actually gay and for that reason get exempt from doing their military service (which is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/a-kiss-on-the-cheek_2849/</link>
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		<title>Dutch Turks moving &#8216;back home&#8217;: No Turk among Turks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Young Dutch men and women with Turkish roots who try their luck in Turkey. Away from the political climate in the Netherlands, on the way to the country of their parents and grandparents, where the economy is flourishing and where they are fully at home. The reality is sometimes quite different. Pictures by Ahmet Polat. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/hoofdartikel/no-turk-among-turks_2851/</link>
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		<title>Massive commemoration of murdered journalist</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/human-rights/massive-commemoration-of-murdered-journalist_2830/</link>
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		<title>Rakel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The conference on the history of the Diyarbakir region, held last November in Diyarbakir, came to an end. The final word would be for Rakel Dink, widow of Hrant. The Hrant Dink Foundation was one of the organizers of the conference. She came forward, and whereas everybody expected a speech, she started to sing. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/rakel_2823/</link>
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		<title>Dutch Maaike left Turkey &#8211; with her children, but without her husband</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dutch woman Maaike Dekkers (32) is married to Veli, a Turkish man. They have two sons, Semih (3) and Kaya (2). Until recently they lived together in Turkey, but last June Maaike returned to the Netherlands. With her children, but without her husband. ‘Veli knew what I gave up in the Netherlands, and why I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/women/dutch-maaike-left-turkey-with-her-children-but-without-her-husband_2821/</link>
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		<title>Life imprisonment for ordering Dink murder</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/human-rights/life-imprisonment-for-ordering-dink-murder_2819/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Dink murder impossible in present-day Turkey&#8217;</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.journalistinturkey.com/stories/politics/dink-murder-impossible-in-present-day-turkey_2815/</link>
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