Turkey points the finger
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The stories behind the headlines. In this edition, we hear from Turkey, where the authorities are blaming a Syrian Kurd for a bombing that killed 29 people. Turkey is unhappy at US support for Kurdish fighters in Syria, who combat so-called Islamic State there. The complexities of the war in Syria are becoming mingled with those of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. Sri Lanka suffered almost 30 years of civil war, and many an autocratic regime, yet now the country seems set on a path of reconciliation. But will a former President and his supporters try and scupper it? In Ethiopia, our correspondent faints at the sight of eyelid surgery - performed on sufferers of an infection that risks turning them blind. The Galapagos islands are home to wondrous wildlife, but there are fears that this year's seal pups might not survive the effects of the El Nino phenomenon. And Detroit, once known for its motors and recent bankruptcy, is now reinventing itself as a place that makes bicycles, and attracts crowds of hipsters.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading this program from the BBC. |
| 0:03.5 | This edition of From Our Own Correspondent |
| 0:05.8 | was first broadcast on the 25th of February 2016. |
| 0:10.1 | It is presented by Owen Bennett Jones. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello, and today we'll hear how Sri Lanka is trying to put a brutal war and autocratic regime behind it. A correspondent hits the deck in Ethiopia because she saw too much. Observing |
| 0:27.1 | eyelid surgery is not for the squeamish. With the fur seal mums away at sea feeding for weeks on end, are the pups waiting for them on dry land going to make it? |
| 0:38.0 | We visit the Galapagos Islands and see the process of natural selection in action. and meeting Motor Cities new Henry Ford, one who makes bicycles, not cars, in a city where cruisers have been replaced by hipsters. We hear how Detroit is being |
| 0:55.0 | reborn. But we begin in Syria where the power vacuum is being filled by |
| 1:00.9 | outside powers. |
| 1:02.9 | First, it was Hezbollah, the Shia militia from Lebanon, |
| 1:07.0 | and then the self-styled Islamic State moving in from Iraq. |
| 1:11.7 | The Turks have an interest, and not just because of the refugees. |
| 1:15.3 | Ankara is also worried about the Kurds in Turkey linking up with Syrian Kurds who |
| 1:21.7 | it complains are backed by the United States. In fact Turkey's |
| 1:26.0 | President Retchib Eardowan has accused the West, Russia and Iran of all seeking to further their own interests in Syria. |
| 1:35.0 | Turkey is angry at Russia's military intervention |
| 1:38.0 | and President Alon de France has warned of a possible Russo-Turkish war. |
| 1:43.9 | Confused? |
| 1:45.4 | Here's Yalanel, who's just been to Ankara. |
| 1:48.8 | Last week relatives of Yildis de Murtash |
| 1:51.2 | were waiting for her to come home from work. |
| 1:53.9 | When I met them, they were waiting outside a forensic office for her body to be identified by a |
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