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		<title>1,500-year-old Bible was discovered</title>
		<link>http://www.alanyaobserver.com/2012/02/1500-year-old-bible-was-discovered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkish authorities have confirmed that an ancient bible thought to be 1,500 years old is being kept safe after being seized from a gang of smugglers. The document is in Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ, written in gold Syriac characters on leather pages loosely bound together with string. It was part of a haul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancelled a trip to America</title>
		<link>http://www.alanyaobserver.com/2012/01/cancelled-a-trip-to-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to payback and needs to be payed back because if this was in UK would be same and no need to even discuss further, The Duchess of York is reportedly facing more than 20 years in jail, after Turkish authorities charged her for breaching &#8220;privacy&#8221; of orphans in that country by secretly filming them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judicial process in Belgium</title>
		<link>http://www.alanyaobserver.com/2011/12/judicial-process-in-belgium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alanya News</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anatolia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anatolia news agency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Turkish family that lives in Belgium has been waiting for the corpses of their two sons, who were murdered last year, for 468 days due to a slow judicial process. Vahit and Naciye Aygün are waiting for their sons&#8217; bodies that have been kept in a morgue for 468 days because the Kortrijk public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish citizens living abroad</title>
		<link>http://www.alanyaobserver.com/2011/12/turkish-citizens-living-abroad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Dec. 15, 2011, a most anticipated law was enacted. Parliament approved a new bill regarding exemption from military service in lieu of payment, which enables men who are 30 years old and older to skip military service in exchange for TL 30,000. According to “The Bill Amending the Law on Military Service,” men who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Difficult for foreigners to understand</title>
		<link>http://www.alanyaobserver.com/2011/12/difficult-for-foreigners-to-understand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I have taken the liberty of writing about my own complaints regarding a new procedure that makes life more difficult for nothing. The heading above is inspired by expats’ complaints regarding local regulations, which are already difficult for foreigners to understand. I want to let you know that you are not alone in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strong force against violence</title>
		<link>http://www.alanyaobserver.com/2011/11/strong-force-against-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alanyaobserver.com/2011/11/strong-force-against-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why would someone beat someone else? What a nasty topic to write about. I selected this heading greatly disturbed in my mind and heart. My first choice for the heading was “woman killers,” but then I felt that would be too strong. It is even difficult to write about this, but the extent of violence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German mother found dead</title>
		<link>http://www.alanyaobserver.com/2011/11/german-mother-found-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British Foreign Secretary William Hague had been asked to step in to help a New Forest father get back his abducted children in the weeks leading up to their deaths. Justin Mellersh had tracked his family down to Turkey and was desperately trying to work with the authorities out there to get his eight-year-old son [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish ID number applications</title>
		<link>http://www.alanyaobserver.com/2011/11/turkish-id-number-applications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Applying for an ID number is one of the items on the “to do” list of an expat in Turkey. There has been some confusion about this and I was indeed expecting the banks and other institutions to get familiar with it sooner. The Yabanc? Kimlik Numaras? (YKN) matter, which stands for Foreigner Identity Number, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN guard was taken to hospital</title>
		<link>http://www.alanyaobserver.com/2011/09/un-guard-was-taken-to-hospital/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alanyaobserver.com/2011/09/un-guard-was-taken-to-hospital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alanya News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Security guards for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan fought with UN guards at the annual UN summit last week when the Turkish leader tried to get in to see the historic Palestinian application speech. One UN guard was taken to hospital, UN sources said on Monday. UN spokesman Martin Nesirky confirmed there had been ‘unfortunate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli treatment of Turks</title>
		<link>http://www.alanyaobserver.com/2011/09/israeli-treatment-of-turks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alanyaobserver.com/2011/09/israeli-treatment-of-turks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of failing to meet its obligations in defense deals, saying Israel had not returned drones that Turkey had bought and sent back for maintenance. “Israel is not being loyal to bilateral agreements in the defense industry,” he told reporters. “There could be difficulties, problems with another country, [...]]]></description>
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