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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>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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>
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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>Obama should visit Istanbul</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/22/obama-should-visit-istanbul/</link>
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		<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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		<title>Journalist of Turkish origin, under protection after menaces</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/12/belcikada-neler-oluyor-turk-gazeteci-dogan-ozguden-belcikada-tehditlere-karsi-koruma-altina-alindi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Belcikada neler oluyor? Asagida gelen Türkce ve Ingilizce e-postalari dikkatlere sakince okumak amaci ile sunuyoruz. Asagida yazi ‚dogrular ile yanlislarin birbirine karistirildigi’ va amaci karalama ve camaura cekme girisimi olan bir propaganda calismasi olabilri. Dogru ise cok üzücü bir gelisme ile karsi, karsiyayiz. Asgidaki yazi Türkce ve Ingilizce AB ülkelerinin her tarafina yollandigini tahmin ediyoruz! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble in the Other Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/12/trouble-in-the-other-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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December 8, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
 
By ROBERT D. KAPLAN

Washington
THE divisions we split the world into during the cold war have at long last crumbled thanks to the Mumbai terrorist attacks. No longer will we view South Asia as a region distinct from the Middle East. Now there is only one long continuum stretching from the Mediterranean to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama plans major speech in Muslim world to ‘reboot’ America’s image abroad</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/12/obama-plans-major-speech-in-muslim-world-to-%e2%80%98reboot%e2%80%99-america%e2%80%99s-image-abroad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington
During the campaign, President-elect Obama put the goal of repairing America’s image abroad – and in particular in the Muslim world – at the top of his foreign-policy agenda. Mr. Obama began defining how he intends to do that this week by discussing his plans to deliver a major speech in an Islamic capital, perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Essence and terms of Gurban Bayrami</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/07/essence-and-terms-of-gurban-bayrami/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/07/essence-and-terms-of-gurban-bayrami/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baku. Elbrus Seyfullayev –APA. “Every Muslim who can afford to do, sacrifices their best domestic animals (usually sheep, but also camels, cows, and goats) on the day of Gurban Bayrami (Festival of Sacrifice), but pilgrims conducting Hajj are certain to do sacrifice in Mecca”, chief of the Education and Science Department of the Caucasian Muslims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mosques are &#8216;land grab, not a place of prayer&#8217;, says Ralph Giordano</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/07/mosques-are-land-grab-not-a-place-of-prayer-says-ralph-giordano/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/07/mosques-are-land-grab-not-a-place-of-prayer-says-ralph-giordano/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ncanikli@yahoo.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Boyes in Berlin 
The building of huge mosques throughout Germany is nothing short of a “a bid for power and influence, a land grab”, according to Ralph Giordano, 85, the German Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor, in an interview with The Times that is likely to stir Muslim anger.
The comments from Mr Giordano came [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/02/turk-art-in-miami/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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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>Ankara warns Israel over museum atop Muslim cemetery</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/01/ankara-warns-israel-over-museum-atop-muslim-cemetery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/01/ankara-warns-israel-over-museum-atop-muslim-cemetery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>haluk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[27 November 2008
Turkey has warned Israel over plans for the construction of a museum in Jerusalem on a site that is now a Muslim cemetery in which companions of the Prophet Muhammad are buried.
A top Israeli court&#8217;s recent ruling giving the go-ahead for the construction of the &#8220;Museum of Tolerance&#8221; has led to tension in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headscarf Ban Remains Live Issue in Central Asia</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/18/headscarf-ban-remains-live-issue-in-central-asia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ncanikli@yahoo.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Linking hijab controversy to fears of Islamic extremism may be counter-productive.
By Abdumomun Mamaraimov in Jalalabad and Saodat Asanova in Dushanbe (RCA No. 556, 14-Nov-08)
“We face a difficult choice – take the headscarf off or give up on school,” said Sahiba Yusupova, whose daughters are under increasing pressure from their school in southern Kyrgyzstan to remove [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TURKEY AGREES TO TRAIN MULLAHS AND IMAMS FOR RUSSIA</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/17/turkey-agrees-to-train-mullahs-and-imams-for-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Turkish government has signed an agreement with the Union of Muftis of Russia (SMR) to train imams and mullahs for Russian mosques. The SMR leadership hailed this decision because of what it described as the secular nature of Turkey and hence that country’s understanding of what Islam should be in a country like Russia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain megalomaniacs</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/09/mountain-megalomaniacs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/09/mountain-megalomaniacs/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/08/luminious-movement-of-the-dialog-universe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/08/luminious-movement-of-the-dialog-universe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehmet Fatih</dc:creator>
		
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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>Jewish group: Turkey promotes dialogue</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/30/jewish-group-turkey-promotes-dialogue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/30/jewish-group-turkey-promotes-dialogue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>haluk</dc:creator>
		
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>haluk</dc:creator>
		
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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>AK Party Fined For Anti-Secular Activities</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/24/stratfor-turkey-ak-party-fined-for-anti-secular-activities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Turkey:  AK Party Fined For &#8216;Anti-Secular Activities&#8217;
 
October 24, 2008


Turkeyʼs high court held Oct. 24 that leaders of the ruling Justice and  Development (AK) Party including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have  carried out anti-secular activities and used religion as a political tool, Al  Jazeera reported. The court fined the party for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish court defends quashing Muslim scarf reform</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/24/turkish-court-defends-quashing-muslim-scarf-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ibon Villelabeitia
REUTERS
8:17 a.m. October 22, 2008
ANKARA – Lifting a ban on women wearing the Muslim headscarf at university violates Turkey&#8217;s secular constitution, the country&#8217;s top court said on Wednesday, defending a decision against the ruling AK Party.
In a legal reasoning that appeared to end any hope for the Islamist-rooted AK Party to revive the [...]]]></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>
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		<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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