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Turkey's crackdown: 'This is unprecedented on many levels'

In today's Perspective we meet Amnesty International's Director for Turkey, Idil Eser. She has been campaigning for the release of Amnesty's Turkey Chair Taner Kilic. Eser was one of the Istanbul 10, ten activists who were detained about a month after Kilic was locked up. They were later released due to international pressure, but the charges against them still stand. She spoke to FRANCE 24 about Kilic's case and what's at stake in this weekend's elections in Turkey.

>> Read our profiles of the six candidates in the race for Turkey's new executive presidency

By William HILDERBRANDT

Sobel Aziz Ngom: Mentoring the next generation of African leaders and entrepreneurs

Sobel Aziz Ngom is a 28-year-old Senegalese entrepreneur inspiring, educating and mentoring the next generation of African entrepreneurs and leaders by giving them access to...

2018-09-20 Perspective

Historian Joan Scott: 'Hardline secularism is as bad as hardline Islam'

"Secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women" is the provocative argument at the heart of the latest book by acclaimed cultural historian, scholar and author...

2018-09-19 Perspective

Polar explorer Sebastian Copeland on the 'urgency' of climate change awareness

"If the poles are melting and if the ice was to be gone, temperatures would be 10°C higher and humanity would not exist". So says world-renowned climate change activist Sebastian...

2018-09-18 Perspective

Child development: Inside a child's incredible brain

Paediatric neurologist Ghislaine Dehaene has spent much of her life studying the brain capacities of infants. She looks at how babies respond to sights and sounds around them,...

2018-09-14 Perspective

Raj Patel: 'Nothing cheap lasts forever'

In recent times, a plethora of books have been published urging us to hurry up and do things or change our habits: "101 Things to Do Before You Die" or "750 Everyday Ways You Can...

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Irish in origin, French by adoption, before taking over presenting Live from Paris, Eve worked as a senior reporter sending stories from all four corners of the world. She also spent a few years studying her native continent as Europe Editor.

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He has worked as a journalist for nearly 30 years, mostly for the BBC. At FRANCE 24, he hosts the Live From Paris show in the morning and presents Revisited, a show about human spirit and achievement in the face of adversity.