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A UK person and someone from another country who does the same job compare their lives

Two people who do the same job, one from the UK and one from another country, compare and contrast their working lives and the issues that arise in their jobs

The Global Gap: Series 2: Turkey

The Global Gap: Series 2: Turkey: Episode 1: Religious Leaders

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Global Gap, Series 2: Turkey, Religious Leaders

Two religious leaders from the UK and Turkey compare their experiences.

4 Extra Debut. The Rev Canon Rosie Harper, vicar of a small church in Great Missenden, and Ishak Kizilaslan, Imam at the Sultanahmet Mosque in Istanbul, compare their experiences.

Global Gap is a series of five programmes where two people who do the same job, one from the UK and one from another country (for this week, Turkey), have a thought provoking conversation, to compare and contrast their working lives and the issues that arise in their jobs. 

A predominately Muslim country, Turkey nevertheless straddles Western and Eastern culture - and the series this week focuses on the religious versus the secular, capturing the differences in attitudes and society between Turkey and UK through conversation and recordings in workplaces.

Episode 1 (of 5): The Religious Leader
Rev Canon Rosie Harper, vicar of a small church in Great Missenden and Chaplain to the Bishop of Buckingham, speaks to Ishak Kizilaslan, Imam at the Sultanahmet Mosque in Istanbul. Her father was a non-conformist minister. She wanted to be a vicar from early childhood and was one of the first to be ordained after women were accepted into the Church of England in 1994. She compares her experience and responsibilities as a religious leader to those of Imam Kizilaslan, who was appointed Imam by the Turkish Government because of his understanding of Islam, including having learnt the Qur'an by heart as a 10-year old boy. 


Reporter: Sara Parker
Producer: Laura Parfitt
Executive Producer: Samir Shah
A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4.

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A UK person and someone from Turkey who does the same job compare their lives

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