The device of putting just one year under the microscope is a bold one in the medieval context.

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But Hugh Pope, senior Turkey analyst for the International Crisis Group, told CNN he saw the killings in the context of negotiations that have been under way between the Turkish government and a variety of Kurdish leaders, including the jailed head of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, since November.

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In this context, an activity under the theme "The challenge of media and water as news and communications campaigns" was held.

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For context, the Congressional Budget Office figures that under the most likely fiscal scenario, the debt will approach 90 percent of GDP by 2022.

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To put that into some kind of context, the next biggest cancer killer is bowel, which accounts for just under 16, 000 mortalities per annum and then breast, which kills under 12, 000 a year.

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