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	<title>Rumeli Observer &#187; Turkey</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>Is the Deep State Still Smiling? Malatya background info</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2011/01/12/is-the-deep-state-still-smiling-malatya-background-info/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2011/01/12/is-the-deep-state-still-smiling-malatya-background-info/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deep state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ergenekon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hrant Dink]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today ESI published a new report – Murder in Anatolia – Christian Missionaries and Turkish Ultranationalism. Below is more background for those of you who want to find out more about one of the most important court cases in Turkey today.
Is the deep state still smiling?
In early February 2008 one of the Malatya victims&#8217; lawyers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amexica and other reflections on border wars</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/12/12/amexica-and-other-reflections-on-border-wars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/12/12/amexica-and-other-reflections-on-border-wars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US soft power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time not long ago when pro-globalization authors argued that the forces of international economic integration would soon make national boundaries redundant. Recently, others have suggested the opposite: that globalization is making national boundaries, at least those between rich and poor societies, all the more impenetrable. In fact, reality is more complex and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multikulti and the future of Turkish Balkan Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/12/04/multikulti-and-the-future-of-turkish-balkan-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/12/04/multikulti-and-the-future-of-turkish-balkan-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Below is the short version of a presentation I gave in Amsterdam at the invitation of the Turkish Institute (The Hague) about Turkish foreign policy. 


Is Turkey&#8217;s Balkan policy today inspired by a post-modern vision of the world? 
A pre-modern one? And does it matter how we call it? 
On 16 October 2009 Turkish Foreign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise Lost? From Smyrna to Skopje to Berlin (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/31/paradise-lost-from-smyrna-to-skopje-to-berlin-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/31/paradise-lost-from-smyrna-to-skopje-to-berlin-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macedonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the past month travelling through the Balkans (Skopje, Tirana, Pristina, Belgrade) and visiting Sweden, Bratislava and Chisinau. I presented on and drafted texts about a lot of different issues: debates in Greece and Macedonia about identities; debates in Turkey about Turkish Christians and their rights; debates in Germany about Islam and Turks; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Wulff and Christians as enemies of Turkey</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/21/obama-wulff-and-christians-as-enemies-of-turkey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/21/obama-wulff-and-christians-as-enemies-of-turkey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

US President Barack Obama speaking to the Turkish Parliament on 6 April 2009.
Photo: White House / Chuck Kennedy
On 5 April 2009 US president Barack Hussein Obama came to Ankara and delivered a speech in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. In addition to praising Turkey he also touched the issue of the position of Turkey&#8217;s Christians:
&#8220;Freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why most Turkish liberals oppose genocide resolutions</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/03/15/why-some-turkish-liberals-oppose-genocide-resolutions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/03/15/why-some-turkish-liberals-oppose-genocide-resolutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Return to Europe - the film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my last entry on Rumeli Observer I shared some recent reaction to the US resolution on the Armenian genocide from Turkey. Let me share some more responses here today.  It did not take long for reactions to the most recent ESI newsletter on the Armenian-Turkish debate on 1915 to reach our mailbox. As always, these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The US Congress resolution &#8211; some Turkish reactions</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/03/12/the-us-congress-resolution-some-turkish-reactions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/03/12/the-us-congress-resolution-some-turkish-reactions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let my colleague Nigar Goksel and myself share some reactions to the recent US Congress resolution here. These are mainly from the Turkish press.
On 5 March 2010 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded to the passing of the (non-binding resolution) in the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives.  The focus of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard presentation on Turkey&#039;s dark side and the Ergenekon case</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/03/01/harvard-presentation-on-turkeys-dark-side-and-the-ergenekon-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/03/01/harvard-presentation-on-turkeys-dark-side-and-the-ergenekon-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ergenekon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

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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>Justice and the military in Turkey &#8211; an update</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/07/19/justice-and-the-military-in-turkey-an-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/07/19/justice-and-the-military-in-turkey-an-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ergenekon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkish democracy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One faithful reader tells me every time that my articles on this blog are too long. I tend to agree and apologise at the outset for this particular (long) entry. 

Outside the courtroom &#8211; Turkey&#8217;s trial of the Century @Jonathan Lewis
In April 2008 we put on our website the picture story The battle for Turkey&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red herrings in Turkish-Armenian Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/06/20/red-herrings-in-turkish-armenian-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/06/20/red-herrings-in-turkish-armenian-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide debate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gerald Knaus and Piotr Zalewski 
On 15 December 2008, shortly after several Turkish intellectuals launched a public apology campaign to commemorate the victims of the &#8220;Great Catastrophe&#8221; of 1915, a group of 146 retired Turkish ambassadors issued a counter-declaration. &#8220;Today, Armenian terror has completed its mission,&#8221; it lamented. &#8220;We are aware that the second phase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You have seven days left&#8221; &#8211; Greeks, Turks and the diplomatic revolution of 1999</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/06/04/you-have-seven-days-left-greeks-turks-and-the-diplomatic-revolution-of-1999/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/06/04/you-have-seven-days-left-greeks-turks-and-the-diplomatic-revolution-of-1999/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balkan wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city of ghosts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lausanne treaty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mark mazower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nation states]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papandreou]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thessaloniki]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
“As small states integrate themselves in a wider world, and even the larger learn how much they need their neighbours’ help to tackle the problems that face them all, the stringently patrolled and narrow-minded conception of history which they once nurtured and which gave them a kind of justification starts to look less plausible and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beirut Place d&#8217;Etoile</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/10/22/beirut-place-detoile/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/10/22/beirut-place-detoile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sectarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beirut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkish foreign policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 

It is my prefered routine upon arriving in a new, unknown city: First, drop all luggage at the hotel.  Second, take a taxi to the nearest foreign language bookstore. Third, find a nice cafe in the city centre to read through the pile of new books on the country in question. Forth, go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taraf, the military and taking sides</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/10/17/taraf-the-military-and-taking-sides/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/10/17/taraf-the-military-and-taking-sides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Freedom of speech is a fundamental value in the European Union. It is also one of the basic Copenhagen criteria of human rights that Turkey continues to have problems with. However, recent months have seen many examples when, across the Turkish media scene, taboos were challenged and even the most powerful state institutions, such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The virtue of boldness &#8211; Meeting Perihan Magden</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/08/16/the-virtue-of-boldness-meeting-perihan-magden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/08/16/the-virtue-of-boldness-meeting-perihan-magden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
 Perihan Magden is one of Turkey&#8217;s most widely read young authors. Turkey&#8217;s Literature Nobel Price winner Orhan Pamuk called her &#8220;one of the most inventive and outspoken writers of our time.&#8221;  She is also a regular columnist for daily Radikal, criticizing the military&#8217;s influence in politics and the militarization of Turkish society.
I visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>101 on the Turkish deep state &#8211; Nokta (Istanbul)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/03/20/101-on-the-turkish-deep-state-nokta-istanbul/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/03/20/101-on-the-turkish-deep-state-nokta-istanbul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deep state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nokta affair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkish democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Umit Kardas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Umit Kardas welcomes my colleague Ekrem and me in his office just off the main pedestrian street in the busy Beyoglu quarter of Istanbul.
The office is filled with books, a new version of the Turkish Penal Code, reformed in 2004, lies on the desk.  Kardas smiles and offers us two glasses of Turkish tea. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>101 on the Turkish deep state &#8211; Devlet</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/03/19/101-on-the-turkish-deep-state-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/03/19/101-on-the-turkish-deep-state-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deep state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ergenekon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Kinzer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three days ago I wrote about a series of strange and shocking events - murders, rumours of military coups and political conspiracies &#8211; that have made headlines in Turkey in the past three years.  I listed these events as they came to my mind and as if they were unrelated. This impression of randomness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Turkish weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/03/16/a-turkish-weekend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/03/16/a-turkish-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AKP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosporus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After 10 days of travel and research in Bulgaria and Brussels the plane from Sofia arrives back in Istanbul early on Saturday morning.
It is a glorious early spring day, warm and sunny. At 9 in the morning, as the taxi goes from the airport in the west of the city along the Byzantine walls towards [...]]]></description>
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