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		<title>The Turks and Kurds demonstrate together in Istanbul</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet I thought this was a very good idea – that maybe the Turks and Kurds would reconcile their differences and finally demand peace and an end to the violence. Because I thought it is a very good idea, I have decided to post this news story about Istanbul from CNN. One can say, “it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet censorship in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet It’s pretty pathetic that Turkey still censors the internet, banning YouTube or anything else for that matter. A true democracy allows people to decide for themselves what they themselves want to watch or read. If one does not want to watch or read something, the individual should decide for themselves. In this news article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bliss (Mutluluk) Movie from Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet It’s not often that we get the opportunity to see a good Turkish film where we live in Toronto.  One of our only opportunities usually comes once a year when the Toronto International Film Festival opens and Turkey enters a movie or two into the lineup.  The only other chance to see a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stone-Throwing Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[problems in Turkey]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Little Boy of Istanbul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yilmaz, The Little Boy of Istanbul]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet This story comes from Today&#8217;s Zaman, printed on 03 January 2010, Sunday. It illustrates a situation that many tourists are not aware of &#8211; the internal problems of Turkey. I published this story on the Imagine Istanbul website because it deals with the Human Rights of the Child in Turkey.  For every action  &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20th Anniversary of the Rights of the Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet It’s the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.  Just how well is the world doing in regard the rights of children?  I started this website because of a little boy I found shining shoes on the streets of Istanbul.  I was moved by his difficult life and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men on the Bridge Film Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Musician Ahmet Kaya</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imagine</dc:creator>
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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>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>Bulent Ersoy of Istanbul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Sometimes you hear the strangest things…. coming out of Istanbul Turkey&#8217;s well-loved chanteuse, Bulent Ersoy of Istanbul is stirring up waves&#8230;. Sometimes you hear the strangest things in the news on Turkey. Sometimes I hear tragic stories and I want to cry or scream. Sometimes I hear really weird stories from Turkey and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Identity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 11:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet If life is a search for meaning and perfection, what is identity, how connected is Identity to the search of truly knowing oneself? Identity is a quest to know who you are, where you come from. It is the definition of the Self. You are defined by history and land of origin, genetics, family, [...]]]></description>
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