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01-17-2007, 05:19 PM
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - Call it hyper-reality TV. For its second season, theTurkish version of the popular "Survivor" reality-TV series upped theante. It deposited a group of 20 Greeks and Turks on a deserted islandand pitted the historic rivals against each other in a battle to see whowill be the last one standing. "Survivor" certainly doesn't shy from confronting some of the oldanimosities that remain, airing footage of the Greek and Turkishcontestants verbally sparring and saying inflammatory things about eachother. In one segment, a Greek contestant is asked how he felt aboutgetting on a boat with the group of Turks. "I felt like throwing theminto the sea," was his undiplomatic answer.