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Turkey's identity struggle

Name: Turkey's identity struggle
Uploaded: 2015-05-29T11:20:23.425Z
Duration: 6 min 35 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Country torn between east and west

Straddling Europe and Asia, Turkey faces the threat from Isis jihadis on its borders, while EU accession negotiations have stalled. The FT's David Gardner reports on President Erdogan's centralisation of power and asks where the struggle for Turkey's identity will settle.

May 29, 2015

Filmed by Steve Ager. Additional footage by Getty and Reuters. Produced by Vanessa Kortekaas.