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		<title>Jihad Jane Was A CIA Actor Working For The FBI To Generate Internet Terror Fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Haluk Demirbag</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An arab foreigner CIA agent made dual citizen with a fraudulent white citizen personality created by the FBI staging false flag terror attacks against America with a full media circus...]]></description>
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<strong>An arab foreigner CIA agent made dual citizen with a fraudulent white citizen personality created by the FBI staging false flag terror attacks against America with a full media circus to hype it.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jihad Jane was given a deal by Eric Holder to stage a fake terror threat on the internet so Eric Holder and Obama could look like good terrorism fighters and create a diversion from the trillions in wealth being given away free to insiders.</strong></p>
<p>I covered this story well on one of my older suspended accounts. It was an obvious fake FBI job from the start, they admitted she worked for almost a year with them before her &#8220;arrest&#8221;. They forgot to tell us she was Nada. I have videos of her mental patient FBI patsy fake mom actor. Her fake boyfriend said she just disappeared. It was all an act, fake. Fake with fake media lies on top of it. She was in an FBI office getting va paycheck for months before we heard of it all over CBS and ABC as a real deal. We were conned and the news never said a word. I would not trust this CIA FBI actor trying to sell a book after stabbing her country in the back with a f<strong>ake false flag terrorism scare that was used to steal real taxdollars.</strong> The FBI stages fake terrorism and the fake is used as a real attack for political and financial gain. Its extortion, Eric Holder runs Al-Qaeda in America, planning the next fake FBI attack to scare you into giving up your rights and wealth. Obama ran this whole operation, he is Al-Qaeda, literally. They dont exist without him running fake Mohammed cartoon, underwear, and Portland Christmas tree attacks on you. This was timed with the MUmbai David Headley trial in Chicago, both accused of fake cartoonist scares. They staged a fake Mohammed scare trial to protect Headley from a real trial in India and summary execution for the attacks he planned. Eric and Obama protected the Mumbai mastermind in a fake show trial tied to Jihad Janes fake cartoon internet scare. All timed coinciding with policy or budget needs in DC. Fake terrorism against Americans is planned in the White House. Did I say fake enough times? Obama is staging terror attacks against America, period. He is using the fear from the attacks for political gain, a terrorist by the purest definition of the word.</p>
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		<title>Eutelsat drops Kurdish Roj TV</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/2012/01/20/eutelsat-drops-kurdish-roj-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Haluk Demirbag</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by: Julian Clover Eutelsat has suspended satellite carriage of Roj TV after a Copenhagen court ruled the channel to be a vehicle of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Roj-TV.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-50126" title="Roj-TV" src="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Roj-TV.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="161" /></a><strong>Written by: Julian Clover</strong></p>
<p><strong>Eutelsat has suspended satellite carriage of Roj TV after a Copenhagen court ruled the channel to be a vehicle of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK has been listed for a number of years as a terrorist organisation by the European Union.</strong></p>
<p>In a statement the Paris-based satellite operator said it had decided to suspend the presence of Roj TV on its satellites in order to avoid incurring criminal liability as an accomplice to terrorist activities.</p>
<p>It has also asked distributors uplinking Roj TV to its satellites to suspend broadcasts of the channel. Eutelsat cannot just switch the transponders off, because it could impact other broadcasters.</p>
<p>Roj TV broadcasts from Denmark, but in the past has used office facilities in Belgium.</p>
<p>In September the European Court of Justice ruled European countries were within their rights to prohibit broadcasters that infringe the principles of international broadcasting, but were unable to reception in another member state.</p>
<p>The case followed complaints by the Turkish authorities that Roj TV’s output was in support of the PKK.</p>
<p>www.broadbandtvnews.com, January 19, 2012</p>
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		<title>Video: Turkey Run By &#8216;Islamic Terrorists&#8217; &#8211; Rick Perry at Fox News Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/2012/01/19/video-turkey-run-by-islamic-terrorists-rick-perry-at-fox-news-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Perry referred to U.S. ally Turkey as being run by &#8220;Islamic terrorists&#8221; after being asked an incredibly biased question by Brett Baier at the Fox News Republican Presidential debate....]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Rick Perry referred to U.S. ally Turkey as being run by &#8220;Islamic terrorists&#8221; after being asked an incredibly biased question by Brett Baier at the Fox News Republican Presidential debate. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.</h2>
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		<title>&#8216;Israeli drones aiding PKK activities in Turkey&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/2012/01/18/israeli-drones-aiding-pkk-activities-in-turkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JPOST.COM STAFF 01/17/2012 21:02 Heron UAVs helped PKK set up bases in Hatay province, Turkish intelligence report says according to &#8216;Today&#8217;s Zaman&#8217; Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles seen hovering over...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By JPOST.COM STAFF</p>
<p>01/17/2012 21:02</p>
<p>Heron UAVs helped PKK set up bases in Hatay province, Turkish intelligence report says according to &#8216;Today&#8217;s Zaman&#8217;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/pkk.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-49934" title="pkk" src="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/pkk.jpeg" alt="" width="311" height="188" /></a></p>
<p>Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles seen hovering over parts Turkey have gathered intelligence for the Kurdistan Worker&#8217;s Party (PKK), Turkey&#8217;s Today&#8217;s Zaman reported Tuesday according to Turkish intelligence agencies.</p>
<p>The report claimed that Israeli Heron drones helped the PKK gather information on the Hatay province, bordering Syria, to determine the locations for establishing training bases.</p>
<p>RELATED:</p>
<p>Opinion: Israel-Turkey relations and the silent revolution</p>
<p>Israel’s Turkish dilemma: To lead with head or heart?</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s Zaman failed to say whether the Turkish report implicated Israel in aiding the PKK in any specific attack, many of which result in the deaths of Turkish soldiers.</p>
<p>It claimed, however, that Kenan Yıldızbakan, a PKK member that organized an assault on a naval base in 2010, had visited Israel a number of times, lending to suspicions of collusion.</p>
<p>The PKK is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.</p>
<p>The decades-long conflict between Turkey and Kurdish separatists located largely along the Turkish border with Iraq and Syria has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Kurds, and over 10,000 Turkish soldiers and police.</p>
<p>The Turkish intelligence report underlines the low in diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey, which nosedived when Israel announced it would not apologize officially for the deaths of nine Turkish activists aboard the Mavi Marmara.</p>
<p>Turkey downgraded military, political and economic ties with the Jewish state in the wake of the diplomatic row.</p>
<p>via &#8216;Israeli drones aiding PKK activities in T&#8230; JPost &#8211; Middle East.</p>
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		<title>Democratisation and Political Change in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Centre for Turkey Studies and Development (CTSD) invited two leading journalists/writers from Turkey over to London to speak at a meeting in the House of Commons this evening...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/bejan-matur.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-49768" title="bejan-matur" src="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/bejan-matur.jpg" alt="" width="205" height="246" /></a>When the Centre for Turkey Studies and Development (CTSD) invited two leading journalists/writers from Turkey over to London to speak at a meeting in the House of Commons this evening on the state of the democratisation process in their country, they could little have realised how febrile the atmosphere would be. But the 28 December attack on the Kurdish village of Reboske in south eastern Turkey (little covered by Western media) by an unmanned Turkish airforce drone, which reportedly killed 35 people, has been a devastating blow for peace efforts aimed at ending decades of fighting and human rights abuses relating to Turkey’s so-called Kurdish problem. The writer and poet Bejan Matur this evening at the meeting went so far as to describe this as Turkey’s 9/11 moment, which can only help to radicalise Kurds. She herself said she had orginally thought of the Kurdish struggle in terms of language and other cultural rights, but now realised that it has to be about equality — and that despite certain positive steps taken by the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan since 2009, Kurds in Turkey are still not viewed or treated as equal by most Turks and usually they can only ‘succeed’ if everyday life and jobs if they agree to accept their ‘Turkishness’. Some of Bejan Matur’s views were echosed by the liberal Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal, best known for his columns in Milliyet, but he stressed that in his view Kurdish rights can now only be furthered if violent action (notably by the mountain-based PKK, which is viewed by the government in Ankara and some Western governments as a terrorist organisation) is terminated definitively. He said that talking to ordinary people in Kurdish-dominated cities like Diyarbakir, he had found they were tired of conflict and sacrifice. But he wasn’t given an entirely easy ride by the largely Kurdish audience at the House of Commons meeting this evening. I suspect Bejan Matur would similarly have had a less comfortable experience in front of a more nationalistic Turkish audience. As so often in conflict situations, many people have become deeply polarised. Bejan famously went up into the mountains to meet the PKK )incoluding a friend) and wrote a book about that experience, which has been selling well. Hasan Cemal also argued that the PKK have to be part of the solution, but he cautioned people with the example of the peace process in Northern Ireland, where it took nearly a decade after the Good Friday Agreement for a deal to be clinched, and even longer to get a full decommissioning of weapons. So although he had been largely optimistic about apeaceful settlement of the issue since 2009, in recrnt weeks he had become pessimistic about any positive outome in the shhort term.</p>
<p>via Democratisation and Political Change in Turkey « Jonathan Fryer.</p>
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		<title>Turkey angry after Danish court leaves Kurd TV on air</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN, Jan 10 (Reuters) &#8211; A Danish court imposed a small fine on the owners of a Kurdish television station on Tuesday but did not shut it down, despite finding...]]></description>
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<p>COPENHAGEN, Jan 10 (Reuters) &#8211; A Danish court imposed a small fine on the owners of a Kurdish television station on Tuesday but did not shut it down, despite finding it guilty of promoting terrorism, a decision condemned by Turkey which is fighting Kurdish separatists.</p>
<p>Prosecutors said Roj TV, an international satellite station based in Denmark, was financed and controlled by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a group labelled a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.</p>
<p>Ankara has long sought to have Roj TV banned. However, the Copenhagen court did not revoke its broadcasting licence and instead fined the two companies behind it 65,000 Danish crowns ($11,100) each.</p>
<p>The verdict was cheered by dozens of Kurdish demonstrators who gathered outside the courthouse but was condemned by Turkey as lending support to terrorists.</p>
<p>&#8221; This is an absolutely irresponsible decision far from prudence ,&#8221; Turkish Minister for EU Affairs</p>
<p>via UPDATE 1-Turkey angry after Danish court leaves Kurd TV on air &#8211; chicagotribune.com.</p>
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		<title>Should Europe fear Islamic extremists?</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/2012/01/09/should-europe-fear-islamic-extremists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should Europe fear Islamic extremists? With EYP – the European Youth Parliament Masha from France: I’d like to know if Muslim extremism is a real issue in Europe. Michaël Privot,...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Should Europe fear Islamic extremists?</p>
<p>With EYP – the European Youth Parliament</p>
<p>Masha from France:</p>
<p>I’d like to know if Muslim extremism is a real issue in Europe.</p>
<p>Michaël Privot, Director of the European Network Against Racism, responds:</p>
<p>Reports from Europol on terrorism threats since 2006 show that, out of roughly 2,150 attacks in Europe, half of one percent were carried out by Muslim extremists, which is to say precisely 10. It’s important, in relation to that, to see the resources devoted to controlling this threat.</p>
<p>In reality, 50% of Europe’s counter-terrorism resources have been used just for the 0.5 percent of terrorism called ‘Islamic’.</p>
<p>So, how can this outright disproportion between the real threat and the means used be justified? You have to look at the political context. Since the attacks in London and Madrid especially, politicians have lived with a dread that an attack might take place in their voting area and therefore they do not scrimp on means, in order to show that they are taking things in hand.</p>
<p>And then there’s the economic context today. Counter-terrorism, especially against Islamic terrorism, involves hundreds of thousands of jobs in Europe, whether it’s in the public sectors of law and order, security services — but also smaller private offices that draw ample benefit from this — all, obviously, in a context where the Muslim is seen as the absolutely different ‘other’, as the threat for our civilisation and our values.</p>
<p>What we are especially interested in now is to see the impact on communities. Today we can say that minorities, Muslims in particular, are victims of this situation in three ways.</p>
<p>Firstly because they are singled out as the scapegoat within the social majority — these minorities all the problems come through. The second thing is that with such a disproportionate attribution of means Muslims, notably young men, are often the victims of extra sharp scrutiny by the forces of order. And thirdly, given that the forces of order concentrate half their personnel on the fight against the Islamist terrorist who represents almost nothing, they do not take care of the much worse threats such as the terrorism of the extreme right such as we see in Germany, or recently in Italy, where there are certainly Muslim communities who are victims, along with black people, Roma and Jewish communities.</p>
<p>Here I think it’s time we might learn some lessons from this, and return to our common sense and change radically, if we can say that, the policy being followed at European level and in the EU member states.</p>
<p>Video: http://www.euronews.net/2012/01/06/should-europe-fear-islamic-extremists/</p>
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		<title>&#8216;U.S. drone targeted civilians in Turkey&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A U.S. Predator drone had reportedly fired the first bomb in an airstrike that killed 35 Kurdish civilians in southeastern Turkey last month. In its main headline on Sunday, Turkish...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>A U.S. Predator drone had reportedly fired the first bomb in an airstrike that killed 35 Kurdish civilians in southeastern Turkey last month.</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_jan02_09_03_turkey1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-49421" title="c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_jan02_09_03_turkey" src="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_jan02_09_03_turkey1.jpg" alt="" width="330" height="235" /></a>In its main headline on Sunday, Turkish Aydinlik newspaper quoted “credible sources” as saying that the US drone had launched the airstrike by targeting the victims.</p>
<p>The report added that Turkey&#8217;s F-16 fighter jets had arrived at the scene between 16 to 18 minutes later.</p>
<p>In December, Turkey said that its warplanes mistakenly targeted Kurdish smugglers, thought to be members of Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK) terrorist group, in the village of Ortasu in the southeastern province of Sirnak close to the border with Iraq.</p>
<p>According to the report, the U.S. drones that have been stationed in Incirlik Airbase in southern Turkey are completely directed by US personnel in Nevada and Turkish Armed Forces have no control over them.</p>
<p>The U.S. delivered four Predator drones to Turkey last year, as part of Washington&#8217;s gesture of support to the Turkish fight against PKK terrorists.</p>
<p>More than 45,000 people have lost their lives since the PKK launched an armed campaign against Ankara in Turkey&#8217;s Kurdish majority southeast in 1984.</p>
<p>(Source: Press TV)</p>
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		<title>Al Qaeda planned to bomb churches in Turkey’s capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compass Direct News reports that 11 Al Qaeda militants planned to destroy all churches in Turkey’s second largest city. An article in the daily Taraf newspaper says a home-grown terrorist...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Compass Direct News reports that 11 Al Qaeda militants planned to destroy all churches in Turkey’s second largest city. An article in the daily Taraf newspaper says a home-grown terrorist cell allegedly made plans to attack churches and Christian clergy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ankara.png"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-49320" title="ankara" src="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ankara.png" alt="" width="320" height="163" /></a>The Special Prosecutor’s Office investigated various documents and CDs that contained revised jihadist plans. The new jihad plan was allegedly to focus attacks in Turkey before moving on to other countries including the United States.</p>
<p>Among the plans and sketches seized earlier this year was a list of Christian workers living in Ankara. Christian leaders in the area were shocked when they heard.</p>
<p>“No one has had any news about this until now,” said one Christian worker.</p>
<p>The Taraf reports that some of the militants were tracked for as long as six months. Along with detailed maps, assault rifles, and ammunition, over 1,500 pounds of explosives were seized over the course of the investigation.</p>
<p>Members of the terrorist group were instructed by Al Qaeda not to enrol in Turkey’s military, send their children to public schools, or recognize the authority of Turkish courts. There were also guidelines for what to do if arrested.</p>
<p>For more information, read Compass’ article here. For more information on the trials Christians face in Turkey, click here.</p>
<p>via The Voice of the Martyrs Canada: Al Qaeda planned to bomb churches in Turkey’s capital.</p>
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		<title>Turkey: At the Crossroads of East, West, North and South</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted on January 5th, 2012 by Samuel Krech Today in our class discussion we talked about the massacre of the Armenian population in Turkey during the first World War along...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Posted on January 5th, 2012 by Samuel Krech</h2>
<h2>Today in our class discussion we talked about the massacre of the Armenian population in Turkey during the first World War along with the Kurdish minority in Turkey and it’s terrorist organization the PKK(Kurdistan Workers’ Party).</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/155340_165489510153640_164118593624065_298493_7638569_n.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-49090" title="155340_165489510153640_164118593624065_298493_7638569_n" src="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/155340_165489510153640_164118593624065_298493_7638569_n.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a>On the Armenian massacre or “genocide” topic we discussed the two differing views that the Turkish and the Armenian people have on the issue. Turkey does not classify this incident as a Genocide but it does take responsibility for the fact that many Armenians were killed on the forced march that they were forced to take. The Turkish government felt that the Armenians were a security threat on their Eastern border and so started the march that, by the end, killed upwards of 650,000 Armenian people, due to starvation and other types of death. On the Armenian side of the issue we see a stance of labeling this happening as a Genocide. They feel that it was a specific policy set by the Turkish government to eliminate them as an ethnic group. So far there has been no official agreement on the issue between the two governments but some progress has been made on the part of the Turkish government in terms of them wanting to open their records to the public to gather the facts of the time and decide what exactly happened, this would be a joint effort with the Armenians but so far they have been non-responsive to this endeavor. Our discussion in class on this topic was a heated one with many varied opinions on the topic and we probably could have talked about it for much longer than we did today.</p>
<p>Moving on to the PKK, the Kurdish terrorist organization, we see a movement by circles in the Kurdish population working towards an independent Kurdish nation. This group uses both politics and violence to further their cause through their history as an organization we do see some progress towards at least recognition of the importance of the Kurdish minority and their needs as a people.</p>
<p>In the second part of our day as a class we watched a movie entitled Bliss. This is a film about woman who was physically abused and her journey, along with her future husband, to get away from village where it happened and also to find her place in Turkey. They find friends in unsuspected places and eventually she comes to terms with the problem. This movie, i think, also portrays the differing cultural values that are important to different parts of Turkey. In this village where this woman lived, if you were violated in this way, you had brought shame to the family and should not be a part of this world anymore. By the end of the movie and her eventual escape from this problem we see the people around her questioning this view and changing their minds in favor of the more modern view of this problem, one in which it was not her fault and the family just had to do their best to deal with and move on from the problem. Overall i think this movie was an interesting one.</p>
<p>So that is a recap of January 5, our on-campus class, Can’t wait to get to Turkey!!</p>
<p>via Turkey: At the Crossroads of East, West, North and South, January 5 – On Campus Class &#8211; Posted on January 5th, 2012 by Samuel Krech.</p>
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