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Fréderike Geerdink is a Dutch journalist based in Turkey since 2006. She is the only foreign journalist permanently based in Diyarbakir. Geerdink specializes in the Kurdish issue and in 2014 published her book on the Uludere/Roboski massacre, "De jongens zijn dood" ("The boys are dead"). On Twitter: @fgeerdink.
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![Co-leaders of the pro-Kurdish left-wing Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas (C) attends a rally in front of the ruins of Surp Sarkis (Saint Sarkis) Armenian church in Diyarbakir, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire on April 24, 2015. Armenians demand that Turkey regognizes the genocide of 1,5 million of their kin killed between 1915 and 1917 by the Ottoman Empire, Turkey's predecessor. In rejecting the genocide label, Turkey says be](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/04/470968156.jpg/470968156.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=HtlYNN2t)
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![Ferhat Savun aged 11, works on his homework in his home in town of Cizre in Sirnak province, near the border with Syria March 23, 2013. Turkey's fledgling peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group is all over the headlines. After three decades of war, 40,000 deaths and a devastating impact on the local economy, everybody seems ready for peace. Pro-Kurdish politicians are focused on boosting minority rights and stronger local government for the Kurds, who make up about 20 percent o](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/09/RTXY7SN.jpg/RTXY7SN.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=j0Y4eaIB)
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