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		<title>Hezbollah will attack if Israeli troops enter the Gaza</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2009/01/06/hezbollah-will-attack-if-israeli-troops-enter-the-gaza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Written by dailyclarity on Jan-1-09 11:11am
From: mydailyclarity. com


 According to Turkish sources Hezbollah has said it will attack  Israel from Southern Lebanon if ground troops are sent into the Gaza. Israel  must be wary of this development given their experiences in the 2006 war against  Hezbollah. If Hezbollah does get drawn into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turk art in Miami</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/02/turk-art-in-miami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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ISTANBUL - Art Basel Miami Beach is the most important art show in the  United States, a cultural and social highlight in the region. It is the sister  event to Switzerland&#8217;s Art Basel, the most prestigious internatıonal art  show for the past 39 years
 Turkish artist Gülay Alpay will create worlds within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brawling Greek and Armenian monks refuse to turn the other cheek</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christian infighting in Jerusalem
By Michael Hirst 
 BBC News 
The argument over rights within Jerusalem&#8217;s Church of the Holy Sepulchre is as complicated and seemingly intractable as the Middle East conflict itself.
But when the dispute descends into violence, battles are pitched with crucifixes and staves rather than missiles, guns and stones.
Many Christians believe the church [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain megalomaniacs</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/09/mountain-megalomaniacs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norman Stone
Published 06 November 2008
Between Russia and the Middle East, the Caucasus is one of the world&#8217;s most diverse regions - and as recent fighting in South Ossetia and Abkhazia showed, still boiling with ethnic tensions. Norman Stone reviews a history which makes sense of this complexity
The Ghost of Freedom: a History of the Caucasus
Charles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luminious Movement of the Dialog Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dark Islam image on Occident infuriates and infuriates Eastern-Muslims. When I went to Mecca . I said to the Muslims who were angry about that image that they were the guilty of the things like that. Because, as they haven’t explained Islam enough, unfortunately the ones who listens to these made up things can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit crisis &#8216;is God punishing us&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/30/credit-crisis-is-god-punishing-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, October   29, 2008
An Anglican bishop says the credit crunch is God&#8217;s way of punishing Britain for being too materialistic.
The Rt Rev Wallace Benn, Bishop of Lewes, thinks the country is obsessed with cash, which has a &#8217;stranglehold&#8217; over our lives.
The credit crisis has been caused by greed and &#8216;God has allowed it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish group: Turkey promotes dialogue</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/30/jewish-group-turkey-promotes-dialogue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Combined Jewish Philanthropies]
ANKARA, Turkey - The head of the European Jewish Congress says Turkey has a key role in promoting tolerance and dialogue between the Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths.
Moshe Kantor says Turkey represents &#8220;moderate and tolerant Islam,&#8221; which puts the country in position to help fight xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism.
Kantor was speaking to The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC boss says Islam should be treated more sensitively than Christianity</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/27/bbc-boss-says-islam-should-be-treated-more-sensitively-than-christianity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/27/bbc-boss-says-islam-should-be-treated-more-sensitively-than-christianity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islam should be treated more sensitively by the media than Christianity, according to the director general of the BBC
By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:39PM BST 15 Oct 2008




Mr Thompson had earlier warned of a &#8220;growing nervousness about discussion about Islam&#8221; Photo: OLI SCARFF



Mark Thompson claimed that because Muslims are a religious minority in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Influences on Politics in Caspian</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/11/cultural-influences-on-politics-in-caspian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/11/cultural-influences-on-politics-in-caspian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehmet Fatih</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Brenda Shaffer works to define cultural domination on states&#8217; foreign or domestic affairs in &#8220;Is there a Muslim Foreign Policy?&#8221;article. With some examples, Shaffer is explaining this event us. Firstly, Shaffer begin the article with Huntigton&#8217;s thesis: &#8220;The Clash of Civilizations&#8221;
Samuel Huntigton&#8217;s thesis bases on idea that culture has main role in defining of policy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox patriarch backs Turkey&#8217;s EU bid</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/28/orthodox-patriarch-backs-turkeys-eu-bid-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/28/orthodox-patriarch-backs-turkeys-eu-bid-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS, Belgium: The spiritual leader of the world&#8217;s Orthodox Christians urged the European Union on Wednesday to take on Turkey as a member if it improves democratic and human rights standards.
&#8220;Europe needs to bring Turkey into its project,&#8221; Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I told the European Parliament.
&#8220;What I and the majority of the people of Turkey wish is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group seeks unity, peace</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/25/group-seeks-unity-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faith often divides friends, families and nations because they believe their faiths are incompatible.
Too many times people look at what is different about religions and never look at what could unite them.
The Institute of Interfaith Dialogue wants to change all of that one dinner at a time.
The IID seeks to promote the interfaith doctrines of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox patriarch backs Turkey&#8217;s EU bid</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/25/orthodox-patriarch-backs-turkeys-eu-bid/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS, Belgium: The spiritual leader of the world&#8217;s Orthodox Christians urged the European Union on Wednesday to take on Turkey as a member if it improves democratic and human rights standards.
&#8220;Europe needs to bring Turkey into its project,&#8221; Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I told the European Parliament.
&#8220;What I and the majority of the people of Turkey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rise of mosques creates tension across Europe</title>
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Posted: 2007/10/11
From: Source










&#8221;Culture clashes&#8221; over Muslim religious buildings have erupted in Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands.











by Ian Traynor in Wangen, Switzerland
(The Guardian)
North of Berne in an idyllic Alpine valley cowbells tinkle, a church steeple rises, and windowboxes tumble with geraniums. It has always been like this.
But down by the railway station the 21st century is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God, Evolution and Charles Darwin</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/20/god-evolution-and-charles-darwin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 From Times Online

September 17, 2008
Ten surprising things Darwin said about religious faith
Nick Spencer 
Next year is the big Darwin anniversary. Two hundred years after his birth and 150 after the publication of On the Origin of the Species, millions will celebrate the life and work of Charles Darwin, one of the most brilliant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dawkins Declines to Debate with Creationists</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/20/dawkins-declines-to-debate-with-creationists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dawkins Declines to Debate with Creationists, Because He Has No Answer to Give!
Richard Dawkins has responded to our request for a face-to-face debate: &#8220;I HAVE VOWED NOT TO DEBATE,&#8221; he says. What this actually means is, &#8220;I have been defeated on the subject of Darwinism. I have no intention of debating with anyone and being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creationist Adnan Oktar wins ban on Richard Dawkins site</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/20/creationist-adnan-oktar-wins-ban-on-richard-dawkins-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/20/creationist-adnan-oktar-wins-ban-on-richard-dawkins-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 From The Times

September 20, 2008
 Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent
A Muslim creationist has succeeded in having Richard Dawkins’s website banned in Turkey, after complaining that its atheist content was blasphemous.
The country’s internet users are now subject to a court order imposed on Turk Telecom that prohibits them from accessing richarddawkins.net.
The court in Istanbul issued its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Society&#8217;s Michael Reiss resigns over creationism row</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/20/royal-societys-michael-reiss-resigns-over-creationism-row/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ From The Times

September 17, 2008
Lewis Smith and Mark Henderson
The Royal Society’s embattled director of education resigned last night, days after causing uproar among scientists by appearing to endorse the teaching of creationism.
Michael Reiss, a biologist and ordained Church of England clergyman, agreed to step down from his position with the national academy of science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revelation Road</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/12/revelation-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With more biblical sites than anywhere outside of Israel, Turkey&#8217;s spiritual tourism leads travelers and pilgrims to ruins
By Peter Manseau
Sunday, September 14, 2008; Page W16
From 3,000 loudspeakers affixed to the city&#8217;s 3,000 minarets, the canned wailing of muezzins rings out the call to prayer five times a day. Istanbul has been a Muslim city for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tide of Nationalism Threatens Istanbul’s Greek Orthodox Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Anne Szustek
Rising Islamism and nationalism within Turkey are hurting Istanbul’s once robust Orthodox Christian community. Possible EU accession has brought the situation into the limelight.

Istanbul’s Orthodox Patriarchate Fighting for Survival 
In 2007, 42 of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee’s 50 members sent Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan a letter pleading on behalf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox Christianity under threat</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/08/orthodox-christianity-under-threat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nicholas Gage
When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and his Islamic-rooted party came under fierce fire this summer from secularists, who came close to persuading the country&#8217;s supreme court to bar both from politics, he called the campaign an attack against religious freedom and a threat to Turkey&#8217;s efforts to join the European [...]]]></description>
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