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Lizzie Porter

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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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A heavily-armed suspect enters the Turkish aerospace and defence company Tusas in Ankara. EPA
Turkey says Kurdish militants main suspects in deadly attack on defence firm

Interior Minister said two attackers dead after incident at aerospace company Tusas

NewsOctober 23, 2024
Lizzie Porter
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meet in Jerusalem. EPA
Blinken and Netanyahu discuss 'new path forward' for Gaza

On his 11th visit to the region since the October 7 attacks, US Secretary of State says Israel should capitalise on the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to bring hostages home

MENAOctober 22, 2024
Lizzie Porter
A composite image of Hamas leader Yahya Al Sinwar and Israel's Chief Pathologist Chen Kugel. EPA/AFP
Sinwar was in good health when killed despite year on the run, pathologist says

Doctor entrusted with carrying out post-mortem tells The National that Hamas leader had eaten well

MENAOctober 19, 2024
Lizzie Porter
Palestinians surge forward to receive meals from a charity kitchen in northern Gaza, as supplies of aid plunge. Reuters
Palestinian Authority says it is working to increase Gaza aid

Mohammad Mustafa acknowledges issues with distribution of supplies and calls for better security for humanitarian teams

MENAOctober 18, 2024
Lizzie Porter
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza city, in 2021. EPA
Killing of Yahya Sinwar plays on hopes and fears of Israelis and Palestinians

Uncertainty over whether death of Hamas leader might end war in Gaza and allow return of hostages, or spur Israel to increase attacks

MENAOctober 17, 2024
Lizzie Porter
Smoke rises from the Lebanese village of Khiam during Israeli bombardment. AFP
Children of Israel-backed militia members oppose reoccupation of Lebanon

Offspring of former members of the now-defunct South Lebanon Army are against both Israeli and Hezbollah presence in the border area

MENAOctober 17, 2024
Lizzie Porter
Security at the entrance to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) offices in Jerusalem. EPA
'We'll enter with helicopters': Israeli official threatens Jerusalem UNRWA offices

Israeli government orders Palestinian refugee agency to leave compound as part of plan to build settler houses

MENAOctober 14, 2024
Lizzie Porter
People injured in the drone attack on the Israeli military base were taken to hospital on helicopters. Reuters
Four Israeli soldiers killed in Hezbollah drone attack on army base

Israeli ambulance service declares 'mass casualty event' after deadliest attack by Lebanese group in past year

MENAOctober 14, 2024
Lizzie Porter
Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli air strike on a crowded tent camp housing the displaced in Muwasi, in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 10, 2024. AP
'These scars will last for a very long time': How the Middle East changed in a year

The war in Gaza and Lebanon has changed the region's geopolitics and the lives of its people

MENAOctober 05, 2024
Lizzie Porter
Cinili Hammam in Istanbul's Uskudar district has been serving bathers since 1640. Halil Taskin / The National
Postcard from IstanbulLocal hammams find favour as tourists soak up gentrified bathhouses

Prices at many of the city's famous bathhouses are out of reach for most residents but a few remain open to all

MENAOctober 04, 2024
Lizzie Porter
An anti-Israel billboard depicting people, among them Israeli soldiers, running away from an explosion and reading 'We will take revenge from where you imagine and not' hangs from a building in Palestine Square in Tehran. EPA
ExclusiveIs the Iran-led militant 'unity front' against Israel still united?

The Middle East militias’ joint command, formed at the start of Gaza’s war, appears weakened following Israel's escalation against Hezbollah

MENASeptember 26, 2024
Mohamad Ali Harisi
Protesters in Istanbul hold portraits of Narin Guran, eight, whose body was found 19 days after she went missing from her home in Turkey's Diyarbakir province last month. AFP
Eight-year-old Turkish girl was strangled, postmortem exam shows

Body was discovered stuffed in a sack and dumped in a river in south-east of country

MENASeptember 23, 2024
Lizzie Porter
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticised Israel's conduct in its military operations. AFP
Turkish court jails 'Israeli spies' for a total of 250 years

Jail sentences given to 37 people convicted of 'obtaining prohibited information'

MENASeptember 20, 2024
Lizzie Porter
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
Lizzie Porter
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
Lizzie Porter
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