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Turkey's Killer Jean Industry
A worker in the blue jean industry. Here, silicosis has been detected in textile workers, and it has been happening here in Turkey. Here, as in other parts of the world, clothes are eroded with a sandblast stream.
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Exiled Uighur Professor Discusses Life in Turkey
In Turkey there are more than 30,000 people of Uighur ethnicity, who have been exiled for either economic or political reasons. Daniel Iriarte speaks with Mahmut Kashgarli, a Uighur who has been living in Istanbul since 1983.
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Turkey: Part of the European Family
The relationship between Turkey and the European Union is not a good one.
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Dam Project Threatens 3,000-Year-Old Village
Hasankeyf is a 3,000 years old village in Eastern Turkey, threatened by the construction of a hydro-electric dam. Members of the local community are increasingly nervous about having to leave their homes and relocate elsewhere.
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Turks Divided Over Stalled EU Membership Bid
What do Turkish people think about accession to the European Union? "There was a reaction in Europe against Turkey, when it was seen that they were really trying to join the European Union."
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Dam Project Threatens Turkish Heritage
Illisu Dam may forever erase a part of the Turkish heritage from the collective national memory.
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Slums
A cartoon about the rise of slums. Currently 1 billion people live in slums; by 2030, 2 billion people will be living in conditions of squalor and poverty.
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I say Halloumi, You say Hellim: Cyprus, Also Divided over Cheese
The Cyprus conflict explained through its main exporting product: halloumi cheese for the Greeks, called hellim by the Turkish Cypriots.
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(No) Strings Attached
A controlling state will try to influence the population by influencing the media.
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Peace Process Destabilized by Outlawing of Kurdish PKK
When the Turkish Constitutional Court criminalized the DTP Kurdish party, it provoked a wave of riots across the country and risked the so-called Kurdish initiative, a government plan to solve the Kurdish conflict in the country.
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Kurdish Paramilitaries Opposed to Peace Process
The Kurdish PKK guerrilla has been fighting against the Turkish state since 1984. The paramilitaries are strongly opposed not only to disarmament, but also to any negotiation with the PKK.
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Iraq: Exclusive Interview with Kurdish Guerrilla Leaders
PKK guerrillas have been fighting against the Kurdish state since 1984, and is considered a terrorist group by the USA and the European Union. This is an interview with Bozan Tekin (number 2 of the PKK active guerrilla fighters) and with their female commander Rohani Serhat.
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Biblical Warning Against Global Warming
In this cartoon, animals go to a huge refrigerator instead of Noah's Ark.
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Self-Proclaimed Uighur President Defies Chinese Authorities
Ahmet Igamberdi is the self-proclaimed president of the Uighur Government in exile – an organisation which fights for the independence of Xinjiang.
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Riots Highlight Latent Conflict Of Uighurs in China
In Xinjiang, SE China, the latent conflict between local Muslims of Uighur ethnicity and the Chinese Han has often erupted into street violence.
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Transparent Government
Free media is like an X-ray machine. It makes politics more transparent by exposing corruption and power abuse.
