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		<title>Syrian dissident jailed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thrilled to hear that my source&#8217;s husband in Syria has been jailed for organising demonstrations against Assad regime, yet content to hear he was alive. Houda Kassoum whom I&#8217;ve written about a few times for Radikal gave me this unexpected call last week telling me how happy she is to see her husband [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cagilkasapoglu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6884720&amp;post=795&amp;subd=cagilkasapoglu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syria distancing from Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cagil M. Kasapoglu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may be politically incorrect, but I love the expression &#8216;best enemies&#8217; which I&#8217;ve heard used most of the time for Turkish Greek relations. But obviously it&#8217;s time use for Syrian Turkish relations as well.. Sign of an absolute failure of Turkey&#8217;s &#8216;zero problems policy&#8217; which I&#8217;ve written a lot about when I was based [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cagilkasapoglu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6884720&amp;post=787&amp;subd=cagilkasapoglu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish delight for vinyl junkies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cagil M. Kasapoglu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drafts of my life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[record collection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here below is a piece I&#8217;ve written for Dust &#38; Grooves &#8216;A crate diggin photo blog&#8217; of Eilon Paz. I was just doing my regular visits to Istanbul when I was based in Beirut. That particular night, my photographer friend Aytac has called me for this photo project knowing that it&#8217;d excite me to bits. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cagilkasapoglu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6884720&amp;post=784&amp;subd=cagilkasapoglu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syrian refugees &#8216;have gone missing&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bashar Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damascus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hussein Harmoush]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My source at the Syrian refugee camp in Yayladagi, Houda Kassoum has previously provided me with some insight information from the camp , at the time when no journalists were allowed in. Around 2 weeks ago, my phone rang again but this time with a panicking and worried voice of her. Begging me to find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cagilkasapoglu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6884720&amp;post=753&amp;subd=cagilkasapoglu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Violence in Hama</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cagil M. Kasapoglu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the foreign journalists are now allowed into Syria to report the conflict, we are pretty bound to what Syrian national news agency SANA has to offer for us. It’s quite hard to reach anyone in Hama where the security forces are literally slaughtering people. Bitter memories of 1982 massacre committed by Hafez al Assad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cagilkasapoglu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6884720&amp;post=734&amp;subd=cagilkasapoglu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey losing patience with Assad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cagil M. Kasapoglu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below, there is a part of my article on Turkey&#8217;s relation with Syria written for NOW Lebanon. &#8220;Turkey’s growing impatience toward next-door neighbor Syria over Damascus’ failure to implement reforms has not only shaken the country’s reputation as a mediator in the Middle East, but also recalls an event 13 years ago that brought both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cagilkasapoglu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6884720&amp;post=740&amp;subd=cagilkasapoglu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Call for help inside the camp</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cagil M. Kasapoglu</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arap Spring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[YAYLADAGI: Still no journalists are allowed entrance to the Syrian refugee camps in Yayladagi, Hatay. Most of news junkies try to sneak in through the damaged fences surrounding the camp. No authorities are willing to give information. But I managed to get a phone number of a Syrian refugee residing in the camp. She asked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cagilkasapoglu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6884720&amp;post=732&amp;subd=cagilkasapoglu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syrians seek shelter in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cagil M. Kasapoglu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bashar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guvecci]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[YAYLADAGI: The Arab Spring hit hard on Syria. In the hope of a regime change, thousands have thrown themselves in streets chanting against Syrian President al Bashar Assad who is committed to cling into power and to dreadfully use violence against the civilians. Fearing their future has dragged thousands of Syrians to seek shelter in Turkish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cagilkasapoglu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6884720&amp;post=721&amp;subd=cagilkasapoglu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Libyan rebels of Dehiba</title>
		<link>http://cagilkasapoglu.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/libyan-rebels-of-dehiba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 22:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cagil M. Kasapoglu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dehiba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghaddafi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEHIBA &#8211; No matter how hard I try to avoid their sticky existence, Turkish soap operas do not stop stalking me. Beirut, Bourj Al Barajneh Palestinian camp, Damascus… and Now here they appear again at Dehiba, Tunisian-Libyan border in words of Libyan rebels… When we crossed the border into Libyan territories to meet the rebels [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cagilkasapoglu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6884720&amp;post=696&amp;subd=cagilkasapoglu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lives in limbo at Ras Ajdir</title>
		<link>http://cagilkasapoglu.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/lives-in-limbo-at-ras-ajdir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 20:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cagil M. Kasapoglu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RAS AJDIR &#8211; The war in Libya caused a dreadful humanitarian crisis not solely with the lives it took at the battle zone, but also with the lives it left in limbo. Running away from Libya’s leader Moammar Ghaddafi’s bullets, they find themselves in harsh poverty and in complete dependency to foreign aid at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cagilkasapoglu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6884720&amp;post=685&amp;subd=cagilkasapoglu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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