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	<title>Rumeli Observer &#187; Books</title>
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	<description>I live in Rumeli Hisari. It is from here, the very edge of the European landmass, that I observe the world. Some of these observations I will share on this blog  as a  Open Society Fellow.</description>
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		<title>What is wrong with education in Kosovo? An update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 16:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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Get this man to Kosovo
A while ago I wrote an article proposing, seriously, that Kosovo becomes the first European country to abolishe its summer vacations. You find it here.  The argument was that Kosovo needs a BHAG (a big hairy ambitious goal) to change its international image and to focus on a major problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard presentation on Turkey&#039;s dark side and the Ergenekon case</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I will give a presentation at the Kennedy School on an issue that has become ever more interesting in recent weeks: what is happening in Turkey currently in the field of civil-military relations? For more details please go here.
Turkey&#8217;s current transformation – in particular concerning the changing role of the Armed Forces &#8211; needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silences and the new Sweden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 18:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amberin, a Turkish journalist, noted how quiet it was as we walked through the centre of Stockholm. We had participated in a seminar organised by ESI at the Swedish foreign ministry on EU-Turkish relations, in anticipation of the Swedish EU presidency starting in a few weeks.  It was early evening and Amberin observed that we could hear our footsteps. This, for anybody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Fidelity and my end of year list of favourites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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My favourite view in 2008 is from my desk: the Bosporus, early December morning 2008
In High Fidelity, Nick Hornby&#8217;s novel about &#8220;young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them, making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars&#8221;, the main hero has many problems, including often losing the plot, &#8220;the subplot, [...]]]></description>
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