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From Our Own Correspondent: Turkey and Egypt

12/12/2012

Turkey and Egypt

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Turkey and Egypt

Istanbul's smash-hit TV soap operas and food for revolutionary thought in Cairo.

Rajan Datar briefly joins the cast of one of Turkey's smash-hit TV soap operas on set in Istanbul; Tom Dinham savours the food for revolutionary thought on sale on Cairo's streets.

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world, presented by Pascale Harter.

In this edition, Rajan Datar briefly joins the cast of a smash-hit TV soap opera on set in Istanbul, and finds out how this sort of on-screen drama has been bringing prestige, clout and foreign visitors to Turkey. Tom Dinham savours the food for revolutionary thought on sale everywhere on the streets of Cairo - even right in the middle of violent political protests.

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