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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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Fighters from Bedouin tribes in the Druze-majority town of Al Mazraa, in Sweida governorate, southern Syria. EPA
'We have enough wars': Israeli experts doubt their country's strategy in Syria

Analysts say success of Al Shara's government is in Israel's interest

MENAJuly 18, 2025
Lizzie Porter
A PKK fighter hands over a weapon to be burnt at a disarmament ceremony in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. Reuters
Chapter of Kurdish separatism draws to close as PKK disarms

End to four-decade insurgency follows regional shifts that increased pressure on non-state armed groups

MENAJuly 11, 2025
Lizzie Porter
PKK fighters line up to lay down their weapons into a pit during the ceremony near Sulaymaniyah in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on Friday. AFP
PKK fighters begin laying down weapons at symbolic ceremony

Conflict with Turkish state since 1984 has cost more than 40,000 lives

MENAJuly 11, 2025
Sinan Mahmoud
Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara receives US special envoy Thomas Barrack, right, in Damascus on Wednesday. EPA
Syrian President and Kurdish militia leader fail to meet in Damascus

US-backed SDF is major obstacle to consolidation of power under Ahmad Al Shara

MENAJuly 09, 2025
Khaled Yacoub Oweis
A screengrab of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan's speech. ANF News / Reuters
Jailed PKK leader Ocalan speaks on camera for first time in 25 years

Founder reiterates call for militant group to lay down arms

MENAJuly 09, 2025
Lizzie Porter
A residential site in Beersheva, Israel, after an Iranian missile attack on June 24, 2025. Reuters
Iran will use all means possible if threatened, senior official says

No current plans to leave non-proliferation treaty, Iran's deputy foreign minister says

MENAJuly 09, 2025
Lizzie Porter
Nurlan Yermekbayev, Secretary General of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, at the Boao Forum for Asia, held in China. Reuters
Exclusive'No winners' in tariff wars, Shanghai Co-operation Organisation chief says

Beijing-based intergovernmental organisation says world powers should leave pressure and blackmail aside

BusinessJuly 07, 2025
Lizzie Porter
Disarming the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) could begin in days, Turkey confirms. EPA
PKK disarmament could begin in days, Turkey confirms

Move comes as part of dissolution of Kurdish militant group

MENAJuly 02, 2025
Lizzie Porter
A Gulf-US Summit was held in Riyadh on May 14. Getty Images
Gulf states grow wary after Iran's strike in Qatar tests regional detente

While Tehran described the strike as an act of 'self defence', the barrage pierced a long-standing regional red line

GulfJuly 02, 2025
Vanessa Ghanem
Turkish police secure the street in front of the headquarters of LeMan magazine in Istanbul. EPA
Turkey's Erdogan denounces alleged cartoon of Prophet Mohammed as 'vile crime'

Four staff of satirical magazine that published drawing arrested amid calls for its closure

MENAJuly 01, 2025
Lizzie Porter
Remnants of an Iranian missile intercepted over Qatar, as it lies on a pavement near a fence on June 23. AFP
Qatar tells of huge cost of Iranian missile attack

IRGC assault on Al Udeid airbase was 'harmful' but Doha chose de-escalation

MENAJune 30, 2025
Lizzie Porter
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MARYLAND - JUNE 24: U.S. President Donald Trump returns from the 2025 NATO Summit on June 24, 2025 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. This year's NATO summit, which brings together heads of state and government from across the military alliance, was held in the Netherlands for the first time. Among other matters, members are to approve a new defense investment plan that raises the target for defense spending to 5% of GDP. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Andrew Harnik / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Trump announces new talks with Iran as hopes rise for Gaza truce

President says US strikes ended war in Iran as ceasefire talks resume in enclave

MENAJune 25, 2025
Sunniva Rose
Iranians were inspecting damage to buildings in Tehran on Wednesday after a 12-day air war with Israel. EPA
How Iran views a return to nuclear talks

Tehran wants incentives that could face opposition in Washington

MENAJune 25, 2025
Lizzie Porter
Iranians rally in Tehran on June 24, after the ceasefire was announced. EPA
Iranians voice relief and reservations after ceasefire with Israel declared

Some residents of Tehran celebrate truce as a victory and a chance to return to normal life, but others remain cautious

MENAJune 25, 2025
Lizzie Porter
Thousands of Iranians have taken buses back across Turkey's land border with their home country as the Israel-Iran conflict has forced a closure of airspace. AFP
War forces Iranians to take buses home from Turkey

Thousands are returning, not despite the conflict, but because of it

MENAJune 20, 2025
Lizzie Porter
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