The Big Read: Let's talk Turkey about SA

22 July 2016 - 10:05

By Darrel Bristow-Bovey

You can't really make a comparison between South Africa and Turkey. Well, obviously you can, but it wouldn't be very accurate or illuminating.

The two nations sit at the nexus of very different geographic, religious and ideological pressures, subject to very different intensities of global scrutiny and expectation.

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