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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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PKK fighters arrive for a disarmament ceremony in the Qandil mountains of Iraq on October 26. Reuters
Pro-Kurdish party and Erdogan hold talks to advance PKK dissolution

Talks come after PKK announced withdrawal from Turkey

MENAOctober 30, 2025
Ibrahim Haciosmanoglu, the president of Turkey's football federation, revealed hundreds of referees have betting accounts. AP
Turkey names 150 referees in football betting scandal

Officials accused of placing tens of thousands of bets are referred for disciplinary action

MENAOctober 29, 2025
Fatih Tuna of the AKP says Europe's people have stood up for Palestinians even as their governments sympathise with Israel. Lizzie Porter / The National
InterviewEurope has lost moral high ground over Gaza, Turkish official says

Turkish contractors 'very capable' of rebuilding war-torn strip

MENAOctober 27, 2025
2TCDHKE Barcelona, 03/07/2016. Interview with the writer Omer Bartov. Photo: Ines Baucells Archdc. Credit: Album / Archivo ABC / Ines Baucells
Israel must confront its past crimes, says leading genocide scholar

Omer Bartov calls for acknowledgment of the past and a truth and reconciliation-style process to break the cycle of denial

MENAOctober 25, 2025
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, meets the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim, in Doha. AFP
Turkey and Qatar seek permanent Gaza ceasefire in Doha talks

President Erdogan on three-country Gulf tour as he seeks closer regional ties

MENAOctober 22, 2025
Turkey and the PKK shorthand cover illustration. The National
Special reportAfter 40 years, can Turkey find peace with the PKK?

The Kurdish militant group is laying down its weapons. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is considering expanding minority rights. But some people say they cannot forgive and forget…

NewsOctober 17, 2025
Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Gaza peace summit in Sharm El Sheikh, at which Turkey was a central player. Getty Images
AnalysisTurkey steps out of shadows in Gaza peace plan

Nato member preparing to help retrieve hostage remains and join Gaza task force, but Israel remains sceptical

MENAOctober 17, 2025
Breakfast in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir draws on ingredients from the agricultural land in the surrounding area. Photo: Lizzie Porter / The National
Does Diyarbakir serve the best breakfast in Turkey?

The nation may be a republic, but it takes the adage 'breakfast like a king' very seriously - especially here in the Fertile Crescent where farming first developed

MENAOctober 10, 2025
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al Shibani, left, and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Ankara on Wednesday. EPA
Kurdish integration deal still just ink on paper, Syrian Foreign Minister says

Asaad Al Shibani visits Ankara as Turkey and US push for the implementation of March 10 agreement

MENAOctober 08, 2025
Turkish policemen on a street in Istanbul. Getty Images
Suspect in killing of Turkish ultranationalist shot dead in Istanbul

Five people arrested after shooting of man on trial in killing of Grey Wolves' leader

MENAOctober 06, 2025
Leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party, Ozgur Ozel, gestures as he gives a speech during the party's extraordinary congress in Ankara, Turkey, 21 September 2025. EPA
Troubled Turkish opposition re-elects leader before court ruling

Republican People's Party re-elects Ozgur Ozel as it fights what it calls moves by the government to replace its leadership

MENASeptember 22, 2025
HTS fighters took control of Syria in a lightning offensive late last year. EPA
Britain 'forged relationship' with HTS in Syria before Assad's fall, spy chief says

Relationship with Syrian rebel group helped speed UK return to the country, Sir Richard Moore says

MENASeptember 19, 2025
Ahmet Davutoglu, former prime minister and foreign minister of Turkey, at the Future Party offices in Istanbul. Lizzie Porter / The National
InterviewNo safety in Middle East after Israeli strike on Qatar, says former Turkish PM

More diplomatic pressure needed to rein in Israel, Ahmet Davutoglu tells The National

MENASeptember 14, 2025
A Turkish military post by the Euphrates River, on the Syrian border. The SDF and Damascus have traded accusations of attacks at the river. Reuters
Syria's Kurds recover footing as Al Shara's push for control falters

Failure to resolve Kurdish issue has affected Syria’s relations with countries including the US

MENASeptember 13, 2025
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh before talks at the Dolmabahce Presidential Working Office in Istanbul, in April 2024. Turkish Presidency / EPA
Hamas presence in Turkey under spotlight after Israeli air strike on Doha

Similar attack on group's members unlikely but covert Israeli operations cannot be ruled out, sources say

MENASeptember 11, 2025
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