Tackling illiteracy
This week Britain takes over the presidency of the EU and high on the agenda are talks on Turkey's accession to the union. In preparation the Turkish government is attempting to bring its record on women's rights up to European standards.
More than half of Turkey's young women are illiterate but in a new scheme being dubbed "official bribery" by the education minister, workers are literally combing the fields to persuade parents to allow their daughters to go to school. They're offering 20m Turkish lira a month to parents for a girl in primary and 35m for each daughter in secondary - and it works.
Jonny Dymond reports from Harran in Eastern Turkey.
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