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From Our Own Correspondent: Turkey and Tunisia

13/03/2013

Turkey and Tunisia

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What might Erdogan and Ocalan have in common? And is hope or fear winning out in Tunisia?

James Reynolds asks what Turkish PM Erdogan and PKK leader Ocalan might ever have in common. Stephen Sackur finds young Tunisians disaffected - and still plagued by unemployment.

Pascale Harter introduces dispatches from BBC correspondents around the world, with personal stories, analysis and wit. In this edition, they may seem an ill-matched couple for any peace negotiation, but James Reynolds argues that Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the leader of the long-banned Kurdish movement the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, could be said to have plenty  in common. For both are trying to change the face - and the constitution - of modern Turkey. 

Meanwhile, on the coast, in the capital and far south in the interior of Tunisia, Stephen Sackur finds young people are politically disaffected - and still plagued by unemployment. Once the country seemed to be a symbol of hope, and at the vanguard of the Arab Spring. But has the momentum lasted - or produced any positive results?

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