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		<title>Turkish Films at TIFF</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet For the last three years I have had the pleasure of attending the Toronto International Film Festival and managed to be able to watch some wonderful films that may or may not have made it to the public cinemas. Of course, I am always excited to watch Turkish films, especially tales from Istanbul, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Musician Ahmet Kaya</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Once upon a time in Istanbul&#8230; There once was a musician in Turkey named Ahmet Kaya and his music was loved by everyone in the country. Now what I mean by everyone, was everyone. Be they left or right, conservative or modern, young and old, Turkish or Kurdish, he was loved by all. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagine Istanbul &#8211; One Year as a Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet It&#8217;s been a year since I turned Imagine Istanbul into a blog format. But if you&#8217;ve been a regular reader, you would know that my site about the search for the little boy of Istanbul has been around since 2004. I also lost the domain name for one year because it expired, I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yeşim Ustaoğlu’s Pandora’s Box &#8211; Pandoranin Kutusu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet In my previous posting I described my disappointment at not being able to obtain tickets to see Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film “Three Monkeys” so instead, I bought tickets for another Turkish film of which I knew absolutely nothing called Pandora’s Box. Sometimes, we find a little treasure unexpectedly and what a jewel of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Egyptian Market Istanbul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet The Markets of Istanbul The Egyptian Bazaar (known as the Misir Carsisi in Turkish) and also known as the Spice Market was built as a part of the complex of the New Mosque (known as the Yeni Camiı in Turkish) in the 1600s. I would walk often through the markets in search of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Galata Tower Istanbul</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet In the village of Galata in old Istanbul on the north side of the Golden Horn stands the Galata Tower, a structure measuring 66.90 meters tall. It dominates the skyline of the city where one can view the Golden Horn, the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus. Since early Greek and Roman times, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mosque at Ortaköy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 12:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet The Ortaköy Mosque in the district of Ortaköy stands gracefully at the edge of the Bosphorus. It is my favorite mosque in Istanbul perhaps because I find it to be the most prettiest and with its white ornate structure, it possesses a kind of feminine loveliness. I always loved walking around Ortaköy, browsing through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Photograph of the Little Boy of Istanbul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet This is one of the first photographs I took of the little boy of Istanbul. I added some words from the poem &#8220;In Search of the Little Boy of Istanbul&#8220;. Someone made it into a large poster for me with Photoshop. I love this photograph because it shows everything about the little boy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The History of Imagine Istanbul</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet With the launch of ImagineIstanbul.com as a blog in January, 2008, I think I should provide some technical, historical background the existence of ImagineIstanbul as a blog. ImagineIstanbul.com was originally launched in 2004 and ran for about one year. Then, due to circumstances beyond my control (or maybe they were in my control), I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Finding Yilmaz Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet In his land, I want to lie down upon the harsh sand that burns the skin or to stand at the edge of a mountain where the wind blows a horrible cruel whisper like a silent shriek across the burnt sky. It is the shriek, like a scream when the mouth is open and [...]]]></description>
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