Stuck in Turkey.
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Turkey and the EU are hammering out a deal that would turn Turkey into the gatekeeper of Europe, to stop undocumented migrants from reaching the West. But will the refugees agree to stay in Turkey, or try to reach the EU by any means possible?
They have lost limbs, parents, homes, and favourite dolls. But not their bravery and spirit. We meet the children who have been affected by the five years of war in Syria. If you're an American, your annual tax return form 1040 has an instruction booklet that's over 100 pages long. Luckily, help is at hand, not just from accountants, but also from specially trained volunteers, like our correspondent. We go on a pilgrimage to the holy city of the Mourides brotherhood in Senegal, where offering hospitality is such an honour, that some believers ask people at the bus stop if they'd come and be their guest. And Paris fashion - for those with no interest in sartorial trends. Was it the universe that pushed our correspondent to brush up on his 'overcast shell hems', and 'poodle cloth'?
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading this edition of From Our Own Correspondent from the BBC. |
| 0:05.0 | It was first broadcast on the 12th of March 2016. |
| 0:09.0 | The presenter is Kate Adi. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello. |
| 0:13.0 | Many like to imagine that war is confined to armies fighting on a battlefield. |
| 0:17.0 | Not so, of course. |
| 0:19.0 | And in Syria we meet the children who have now lived through five years of conflict. |
| 0:24.8 | We all dread filling in the annual tax return, but it could be worse, it could be an American |
| 0:30.1 | tax return that comes with an instruction booklet over a hundred pages long. |
| 0:36.2 | We're off to the Holy City of the Morid's Brotherhood in Senegal where offering hospitality |
| 0:41.2 | is such an honour that strangers at a bus stop get invitations. |
| 0:46.8 | And Paris fashion for those with no interest in sartorial trends, our correspondent brushes up on his overcast shell hems and poodle cloth. |
| 0:57.3 | The European Union has reached a much criticised deal with Turkey to drastically reduce the |
| 1:02.0 | number of refugees and migrants coming to Europe. |
| 1:05.0 | The EU wants Turkey to act as Europe's gatekeeper. |
| 1:09.0 | Under the deal, which hasn't been finalised yet, undocumented migrants who cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece |
| 1:15.5 | will be sent back to Turkey. In a one-for-one deal, the EU would then resettle one refugee |
| 1:21.6 | already in Turkey for each migrant that Turkey takes back. |
| 1:25.8 | Turkey has agreed to this provided that it also gets more aid, visa-free travel for its citizens |
| 1:31.6 | and progress on talks on eventual EU membership. |
| 1:35.6 | Mark Loean's been finding out if anything can stop the desperate and dispossessed from |
| 1:40.4 | attempting to make the journey from Turkey to Europe. |
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