July 30, 2012

Six Days in Turkey... The Many Lessons

Ike Abonyi

Courtesy of a Turkey-based non-governmental organisation, Ufuk Foundation, select journalists from Nigeria visited Turkey recently during which they glimpsed the country’s secular and liberal life.

On July 8, 2012, six senior journalists based in Abuja, Nigeria left the country for Turkey. The desire to visit the country stemmed from various reasons: it is one of the few countries that belong to two continents and one of the countries that is an Islamic nation yet operates as if its a secular state.