A Turkish Mosaic
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Windows on the world. Today: diverse and contradictory views about the Turkish election and the country's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan from three very different parts of the country; there's now a record number of migrants in the French port of Calais - they're concerned not only about the hostility they face but also about the widespread ignorance in Europe about what's really going on in their home countries; as gloom deepens further at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, we hear Swiss fears the scandal is a further blow to the image the country once enjoyed as a place of chocolate and cheese, competence and quality; there's a visit to the world's biggest shipyard, which is in South Korea, but why does the place remind our correspondent of sepia photographs and old newsreels and it's 'transhumance' time: we're in the Pyrenees as thousands of cattle and sheep set off for their summer pastures on the slopes
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| 0:00.0 | You have downloaded from our own correspondent. This edition is the latest one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:06.0 | And here to introduce it is Kate A.D. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello. Today, bombs go off in Turkey as the country prepares for its most important vote in a generation. |
| 0:17.0 | Going home will mean imprisonment, even execution, the African migrants in Calais who say, |
| 0:22.0 | surely Britain will offer them safe refuge. |
| 0:25.0 | Their Swiss nostalgia for the days their country was famed for geez and cuckoo clocks |
| 0:30.0 | rather than financial scandal. And in South Korea a picture of pride, prosperity and |
| 0:36.4 | family companionship at the biggest shipyard in the world. |
| 0:41.4 | There were two explosions at a Kurdish party election rally in Diabakhir in |
| 0:45.2 | Southeast Turkey yesterday. Two people were killed and more than 130 taken to |
| 0:50.0 | hospital. The country's president, Richard Rachip Taipaduan, said they were a provocation designed |
| 0:56.2 | to undermine peace ahead of tomorrow's parliamentary election. The polls being seen as a referendum |
| 1:01.9 | on the president, what he's achieved and what he still plans to do. |
| 1:06.0 | Mark Loeans been touring the country as its people prepare to cast their votes. |
| 1:10.8 | Three women in three cities representing three utterly different identities of a country. |
| 1:17.0 | They all hold a Turkish passport, they all pay taxes to the same government, |
| 1:22.0 | and yet meeting them on my travels from one side of the country |
| 1:24.9 | to the other, as I have done in the past fortnight, has revealed to me a nation that is more diverse |
| 1:30.8 | and more divided than any other I know. |
| 1:34.0 | First is Pinapinzuti from Ismyre on Turkey's western coast, its secular heartland. |
| 1:40.0 | A stronghold of the centre left, this relaxed European city is a wash with beachfront bars, pumping |
| 1:47.0 | out Turkish rock and local beer. |
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