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	<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>LET GAZA LIVE!; Stop the U.S./Israeli War Against the Palestinian People</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2009/01/06/let-gaza-live-stop-the-usisraeli-war-against-the-palestinian-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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LET GAZA LIVE!
Stop the  U.S./Israeli War
Against the Palestinian People
National March on Washington
Saturday, January  10
Assemble at the White House  (north side) at 1:00  PM










Tens of thousands have marched across the  country.
Above: Chicago, January  2



Sponsoring  organizations: ANSWER Coalition, Muslim American Society  Freedom, Free Palestine Alliance, American Muslim Task Force, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A BOMB TARGETED A TURKMEN JUDGE IN IRAQ</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2009/01/03/a-bomb-targeted-a-turkmen-judge-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2009/01/03/a-bomb-targeted-a-turkmen-judge-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>msalman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An explosive device that was placed inside the house of Judge Abdul-Mahdi Najar who lives in Tuz Khormatu went off about three o&#8217;clock this afternoon on the 2nd of January 2009.
The blast occurred in the Aksu neighbourhood in Tuz Khormatu district which is one of the Turkmeneli districts; it is located on the highway between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide bomb kills 25 Turkmens in Qaragoli tribal leaders meeting in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2009/01/03/suicide-bomb-kills-25-turkmens-in-qaragoli-tribal-leaders-meeting-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2009/01/03/suicide-bomb-kills-25-turkmens-in-qaragoli-tribal-leaders-meeting-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>msalman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 1st January 2009, 25 people were killed in a suicide bombing in the town of Yusufiya south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, reported Turkmeneli TV. 
 
About 67 Turkmen Qaragol tribes were also injured in the attack at a gathering of Turkmen Qaragol tribal leaders in Yusufiya, 20km (12 miles) from Baghdad. The Qaragoli [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy to Commission Aircraft Carrier George H.W. Bush</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/31/navy-to-commission-aircraft-carrier-george-hw-bush/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/31/navy-to-commission-aircraft-carrier-george-hw-bush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[








No. &#8230;.
December 30, 2008














From: DoD News &#60;dodnews@subscriptions.dod.mil&#62;



The Navy&#8217;s newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George H. W.  Bush will be commissioned Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, during an 11 a.m. EST  ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk, Va.

President George W. Bush will deliver the principal  address. Dorothy &#8220;Doro&#8221; Bush Koch, daughter of the ship&#8217;s namesake, is the  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kurdish TV opens but picture still fuzzy</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/31/kurdish-tv-opens-but-picture-still-fuzzy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/31/kurdish-tv-opens-but-picture-still-fuzzy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10659207.asp










 


ANKARA - As Turkey’s first full-time Kurdish TV  Channel, TRT-6, is about to be launched, bans remain on the use of letters in  the Kurdish alphabet such as w, q, and x, which are absent in the Turkish  language.
The head of the Kurdish Writers’ Association, Ýrfan Babaoðlu, dismissed the  channel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defending clients, and choices</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/31/defending-clients-and-choices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/31/defending-clients-and-choices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Armenian Question]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
By Mark Shanahan, Globe Staff  &#124;  December 30, 2008
Harvey, how could you?
That&#8217;s what every Armenian in Massachusetts is asking. They&#8217;re demanding to  know how famed defense attorney Harvey Silverglate could take the side of the  Turks in the legal standoff over the Armenian tragedy.
Silverglate&#8217;s a stooge, they say, for effectively questioning whether the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divided They Conquer: The Success of Armenian Ethnic Lobbies in the United States</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/31/divided-they-conquer-the-success-of-armenian-ethnic-lobbies-in-the-united-states/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/31/divided-they-conquer-the-success-of-armenian-ethnic-lobbies-in-the-united-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Armenian Question]]></category>

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Divided They Conquer: The Success of Armenian Ethnic Lobbies in the United States






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		<title>THE DEBKA REVIEW - A WEEK AT GLANCE</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/31/the-debka-review-a-week-at-glance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/31/the-debka-review-a-week-at-glance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[






Summary of DEBKAfile Exclusives in Weeks Ending  Dec. 25, 2008



Kidnap, glider attacks in Jerusalem foiled. Two Palestinians arrested 14 Dec.: DEBKAfile&#8217;s counter-terror sources report  that two residents of the Jerusalem village of Isawiya, Iyad Abid, 20, and  Abdullah Abid, 21, were indicted before Jerusalem district court Sunday, Dec.  14, on charges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish opposition demands to tackle Armenian to join Eurovision contest with so-called “genocide” song</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/turkish-opposition-demands-to-tackle-armenian-to-join-eurovision-contest-with-so-called-%e2%80%9cgenocide%e2%80%9d-song/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/turkish-opposition-demands-to-tackle-armenian-to-join-eurovision-contest-with-so-called-%e2%80%9cgenocide%e2%80%9d-song/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ncanikli@yahoo.com</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ankara–APA. Armenian-American rock band “System of a Down” will join the Eurovision 2009 Song Contest in Moscow in May. Turkish opposition concerns about this decision, APA reports quoting the Turkish news agencies. Member of the Parliament from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Akif Ekici addressed Prime Minister Receb Tayib Erdogan reminding that this group is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TURKISH AND ARMENIAN HISTORIANS TO DISCUSS PAST AND PRESENT RELATIONS OF TWO NATIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/turkish-and-armenian-historians-to-discuss-past-and-present-relations-of-two-nations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/turkish-and-armenian-historians-to-discuss-past-and-present-relations-of-two-nations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Armenian Question]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[



 
 




Football diplomacy gives impetus to second track diplomacy as a group of Turkish and Armenian historians and social scientists gathered at a workshop in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan to discuss past and present relations of the two nations.
The rapprochement that started with the Turkish president&#8217;s visit to Yerevan last month to watch a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyprus Dimension of Turkish Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/cyprus-dimension-of-turkish-foreign-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/cyprus-dimension-of-turkish-foreign-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehmet Fatih</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cyprus that is located in Eastern Mediterranean has a great strategic importance for European countries as much as other North Africa and Middle East have. Sovereign states made big wars especially to keep the artery of commerce under control and the island was occupied by so many forces throughout the history. Cyprus that consistently passed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7,000 years older than Stonehenge: the site that stunned archaeologists</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/7000-years-older-than-stonehenge-the-site-that-stunned-archaeologists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/7000-years-older-than-stonehenge-the-site-that-stunned-archaeologists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[İşte size 12000 yıllık bir haber&#8230;&#8230; Gazetelerimizde hiç yer almıyor, ilgi  görmüyor desek yeridir. Yukarıda saydığım &#8220;bıkıntı&#8221; konuların hepsi gidici ve  geçici ama bu 12000 yıl dayanmış, umarım Türkiyenin bu ilgisizliğine karşın  12000 yıl daha dayanır.
ilginize sunarim.
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7,000 years older than Stonehenge: the site that stunned  archaeologists
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		<title>FAU Lecture Addresses Armenian Genocide</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/fau-lecture-addresses-armenian-genocide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/fau-lecture-addresses-armenian-genocide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.fau.edu/communications/mediarelations/Releases1208/120810.php
Press Release:
MEDIA CONTACT: Polly Burks
561-297-2595, pburks@fau.edu
FAU Lecture Addresses Armenian Genocide



BOCA RATON, FL (December 11, 2008) - Florida Atlantic University will present author Margaret Ahnert with the lecture &#8220;The Knock at the Door: A Journey Through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide,&#8221; on Wednesday, January 7 at 4:30 p.m. in the Levine-Weinberger Jewish Life Center on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey’s Religious Merchants</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/turkey%e2%80%99s-religious-merchants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/turkey%e2%80%99s-religious-merchants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Newfound Riches Come With Spiritual
Costs for Turkey’s Religious Merchants

Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
Ferhan Kadiroglu played with her 3-year-old daughter, Ayse, in their Istanbul home. Their family is part of Turkey’s powerful new class of wealthy Muslims.

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		<title>Should Turkey Apologize To The Armenians?</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/27/should-turkey-apologize-to-the-armenians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/27/should-turkey-apologize-to-the-armenians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Commentary
Asli  Aydintasbas 12.26.08, 12:01 AM  ETISTANBUL&#8211;Should we apologize to Armenians?
It&#8217;s almost a miracle, but I have somehow managed to avoid the &#8220;Armenian  issue&#8221; throughout my journalism career. I never wrote a single column on it,  even throughout the various diplomatic rows between Turkey and Armenia on  whether or not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laying Claim to Asia</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/23/laying-claim-to-asia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ncanikli@yahoo.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dmitry Shlapentokh
22 December 2008
On the Dnieper and in Crimea, the notion is taking root that Eurasia’s true heart was never in Russia after all.
For centuries, nationalistic Ukrainian intellectuals have seen Ukraine as a part of Europe and hostile to Asians. And it was Russians who were dubbed Asiatics, descendants of the Mongols, who had nothing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activities of the Civilitas Foundation</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/23/activities-of-the-civilitas-foundation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ncanikli@yahoo.com</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.turkishforum.com/content/?p=8269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This year has seen an unusual amount of activity between Turkey and Armenia. At Civilitas, we’ve contributed to the efforts of those who want to improve relations. A group of big-name Turkish journalists came to meet with Mr. Vartan Oskanian in September.
In November, Salpi Ghazarian, Civilitas Director, participated in a confernce held at the European [...]]]></description>
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		<title>/PanARMENIAN.Net/ An irreversible trend has commenced in Turkey</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/22/panarmeniannet-an-irreversible-trend-has-commenced-in-turkey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/22/panarmeniannet-an-irreversible-trend-has-commenced-in-turkey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[YORUM YAPMAGA LUZUM VARMI
SOYKIRIMI KABULLENMEYE HAZIR OLMAK TURKLER ICIN SON SANS
12 BIN 120 BIN OLDUGU GUN ZATEN TUM DUNYA TURKIYEYI  ZORLIYACAKTIR
CUMHUR BASKANIMIZIN ERIVANA MAC&#8217;A GITMESININ TURKIYEYI
NEREYE SURUKLEDIGINI GOREN VARMI?
Vedat Aslay
Los Angeles
California USA
Assembly: irreversible trend has commenced in Turkey 
19.12.2008 18:39 GMT+04:00 

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ An irreversible trend has commenced in Turkey, said Executive Director of20the Armenian Assembly of America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FORGET ARMENIA, TURKS SHOULD CONDEMN AMERICAN INDIAN GENOCIDE</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/22/forget-armenia-turks-should-condemn-american-indian-genocide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/22/forget-armenia-turks-should-condemn-american-indian-genocide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aira</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Turkey is today beset on all sides by the shock doctrine strategy of the west, and from within by its US-backed marionette government. Now the Armenian Genocide issue has once again bubbled to the surface. Apologize! Apologize! yell the so-called Turkish liberals, egos stroked and, no doubt, palms greased by their western puppeteers. It&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama should visit Istanbul</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/22/obama-should-visit-istanbul/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/22/obama-should-visit-istanbul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aira</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL - President-elect Barack Obama, who pledged to visit a Muslim capital during his first 100 days in office, should choose Turkey or Indonesia, two key Muslim-majority countries going through a steady democratic transition, according to the Washington Post.
In an article published Saturday, Egyptian sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim said delivering a message of U.S. reconciliation [...]]]></description>
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