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	<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Turkey Blog - The Black Widow Of Incirlik Air Base</title>
		<link>http://www.turkeycentral.com/index.php/blog/1/entry-209-the-black-widow-of-incirlik-air-base/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn't an OSI agent any more, that had ended four years ago.  I was now a contractor, doing personnel security investigations for AFOSI Detachment 522, from my house in Incirlik Village.  I seldom got visitors, so when I heard the doorbell ring, I thought it was my landlord who lived downstairs.  But it wasn't.<br />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Turkey Blog - From: The Perils Of Pensions</title>
		<link>http://www.turkeycentral.com/index.php/blog/1/entry-208-from-the-perils-of-pensions/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[ <br />
I have stayed in some great pensions, as well as some real dumps.  Often I just show up in town and start walking, looking for the area where most of them are.  And I'm usually so tired that I'm not very picky.<br />
<br />
I prefer pensions,...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Turkey Blog - Terrorist Attack</title>
		<link>http://www.turkeycentral.com/index.php/blog/1/entry-199-terrorist-attack/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was my fourth day in Izmir.  I was mostly over the jet lag, still in-processing and attending various briefings.  I'd been to the office once already, and met everyone.  As expected, they gave me some time to learn my way around &#304;zmir using a rather simple map I got from my welcome brochure.<img style="float:right; margin: 10px 0px 10px...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Turkey Blog - Buried Secrets</title>
		<link>http://www.turkeycentral.com/index.php/blog/1/entry-198-buried-secrets/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike poked his head into my office door.  "There's a Captain Foley here from Civil Engineering (CE). Says he has a security violation we need to investigate."<br />
<br />
"Security violations are the responsibility of the unit," I replied.<br />
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Turkey Blog - The Diamond Smuggler</title>
		<link>http://www.turkeycentral.com/index.php/blog/1/entry-197-the-diamond-smuggler/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in my usual place on weekends, sitting at the bar of Kybele Rock bar in Izmir.  I was talking to a new acquaintance, Nuri, a well-groomed businessman in a tailored suit.  Nuri told me he was in the import business, and we talked for an hour or so. After exchanging business cards, I left.  I didn't expect to hear from him again, at least not in the...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Turkey Blog - Dinner At Ibo's Place, Cesme]]></title>
		<link>http://www.turkeycentral.com/index.php/blog/1/entry-192-dinner-at-ibos-place-cesme/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA["Ibo!" I shouted into my mobile phone, trying to be louder than the street noise around me in the Greek island of Chios, a 50-minute ferry trip from Cesme.<br />
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 21:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Turkey Blog - Guarding The Kumluca Ethnographic Museum</title>
		<link>http://www.turkeycentral.com/index.php/blog/1/entry-191-guarding-the-kumluca-ethnographic-museum/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The books said Kumluca was a boring, non-happenin', agricultural city with no beach, no attractions, and no reason to visit it.  It was right off the highway I was on, so I decided to check it out.  I wanted to go to the belediye (municipality) to see if they had any brochures.  Eventually, I found the belediye and got some surprisingly nice brochures,...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 04:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amy's Blog - Simit -  A Short Story]]></title>
		<link>http://www.turkeycentral.com/index.php/blog/58/entry-190-simit-a-short-story/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to write a short story for class today, involving a smell that gives you a childhood memory. Well, it was obvious what mine was going to be  :)<br />
<br />
  Molasses and olive oil infused with butter and sugar, a light glaze of honey and sprinkles of sesame seeds combine to create the rich, warm...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 18:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Turkey Blog - A Drive In The Woods (Or &#34;where The Hell Is Arycanda?)]]></title>
		<link>http://www.turkeycentral.com/index.php/blog/1/entry-189-a-drive-in-the-woods-or-where-the-hell-is-arycanda/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was trying to get to Arycanda.  It's an ancient city with appreciable ruins, north of Finike, near a town called Gokbuk. I followed the signs until I found that the road to Gokbuk was closed.  Well, I didn't come all that way to go back empty handed.  So I decided to find a detour.<img style="float:right; margin: 10px"...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Turkey Blog - Beldibi: Trout And Tourists</title>
		<link>http://www.turkeycentral.com/index.php/blog/1/entry-188-beldibi-trout-and-tourists/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was on one of my treks, from Antalya to Kas.  I went to see this little dot on the map, the town of Beldibi.  It's basically a long row of package-holiday hotels, fronting an unexciting beach, and an alley behind it where the locals sell stuff to the people who venture out from the hotels.  <img style="float:right; margin: 10px"...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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