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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<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>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>
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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>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>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>
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		<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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		<title>Talk at Hertie School in Berlin on Turkey-EU relations</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/11/07/talk-at-hertie-school-in-berlin-on-turkeys-eu-bid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/11/07/talk-at-hertie-school-in-berlin-on-turkeys-eu-bid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presentations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alina Mungiu-Pippidi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German debate about Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hertie School of Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, one of Romania&#8217;s leading social scientists and founder of the Romanian Academic Society has moved to teach at the Hertie School of Governance (HSoG) in Berlin where she invites me to give a presentation on Turkey&#8217;s potential for accession to the EU. Social and economic developments, the recent (legal) revolution of women&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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