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      Lizzie Porter

      Lizzie Porter

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      Istanbul
      Lizzie Porter is The National's Istanbul correspondent. She has been a foreign correspondent for nearly a decade, and was previously based in Beirut and Baghdad. She covers diplomacy, politics, conflicts and crises in Turkey and across the Middle East, and has won multiple awards for her reporting on topics ranging from missing persons in Iraq to the region's climate crises. A native English speaker, she also speaks fluent French, Arabic and Farsi. Her Turkish is improving.
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      Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticised Israel's conduct in its military operations. AFP
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      Jail sentences given to 37 people convicted of 'obtaining prohibited information'

      MENASeptember 20, 2024
      A walkie-talkie with the Icom logo at a shop in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. AFP
      Japanese Icom walkie-talkies in spotlight after Hezbollah devices explode

      Company warns of counterfeits as devices were discontinued a decade ago

      MENASeptember 19, 2024
      Turkish postmortem on Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the US-Turkish activist killed during a protest in the occupied West Bank, has confirmed she died from a gunshot wound to the head. AFP
      ExclusiveExperts confirm US-Turkish activist died from gunshot wound to head

      Activist was killed when Israeli troops opened fire at a protest in the occupied West Bank

      MENASeptember 17, 2024
      Protesters hold portraits of Narin Guran, 8, whose body was found after being missing for 19 days, during a protest at Kadikoy district in Istanbul, on September 8. AFP
      Turkey detains three more relatives of murdered girl, eight

      Father released but mother and brother remain in custody on suspicion of complicity in her death

      MENASeptember 16, 2024
      Numan Kurtulmusz, Turkey's Parliament Speaker, joins relatives of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi to carry her coffin in Didim, Turkey. Reuters
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      'She fell as a martyr': US-Turkish activist shot dead by Israel laid to rest

      The campaigner, 26, was killed while taking part in a protest in the occupied West Bank

      MENASeptember 14, 2024
      Refugees are rescued off the coast of Balikesir, Turkey after a failed attempt to reach Europe by boat. Many Iraqis who fled their home country after receiving threats from militias are waiting for resettlement to a third country. Getty Images
      Special report‘Twelve years of my life are gone’: The Iraqi refugees waiting in desperate limbo in Turkey

      A former member of Iraq's special forces who received death threats over his work with the US is among thousands of Iraqis waiting for resettlement

      MENASeptember 14, 2024
      Turkish police officers carry the coffin of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank. EPA
      Play01:27
      Body of US-Turkish activist killed by Israeli fire arrives in Turkey

      US-Turkish national shot in West Bank will be buried on Saturday in Didim, on the Aegean coast

      MENASeptember 13, 2024
      Aysenur Eygi was shot dead while volunteering with a pro-Palestinian solidarity group in the village of Beita near Nablus. AP
      Body of US-Turkish activist shot by Israel set to arrive in Turkey

      Palestinian autopsy report says death was caused by severe bleeding and swelling of brain

      MENASeptember 12, 2024
      Protesters in Istanbul on Sunday hold portraits of Narin Guran, eight, who was found dead after being missing for 19 days. AFP
      Parents among suspects after Turkish girl, eight, found dead in sack

      Twenty two people face trial after man admits to disposing Narin Guran's body

      MENASeptember 12, 2024
      The body of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, will be buried in the Aydin district of Turkey's Aegean coastal region. Reuters
      Partner of US-Turkish activist shot by Israel says her killing was not an accident

      Israeli army had said it 'unintentionally' shot Aysenur Eygi dead

      MENASeptember 10, 2024
      Protesters in Istanbul hold portraits of eight-year-old Narin Guran, whose body was found on Sunday after being missing for 19 days. AFP
      Outrage in Turkey after body of girl found in sack

      Two dozen people arrested over suspected murder as Erdogan says he is following case

      MENASeptember 10, 2024
      Mourners pray over the body of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, who was fatally shot by Israeli soldiers while participating in an anti-settlement protest in the West Bank, during her funeral procession in the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday. AP
      Body of US-Turkish citizen shot in West Bank to be returned to Turkey

      Symbolic funeral held for Aysenur Eygi in Palestinian city of Nablus before her body is transported to Turkey

      MENASeptember 09, 2024
      Aysenur Ezgi Eygi at her University of Washington graduation this spring. Photo: International Solidarity Movement, via her family
      Play00:42
      Family seeks independent inquiry after US-Turkish citizen killed during Israeli gunfire

      Eyewitness says Aysenur Eygi was shot when troops opened fire at a protest in the West Bank village of Beita

      USSeptember 06, 2024
      Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi (left) shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after a signing ceremony in Ankara on Wednesday. Reuters
      Turkey and Egypt look for new partnerships in El Sisi's first visit to Ankara

      Previously icy relations thaw as leaders pledge closer co-operation and more trade

      MENASeptember 04, 2024
      Economic ties between the Turkey and Egypt are strengthening. Reuters
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      MENASeptember 04, 2024
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