Journalist & broadcaster based in Istanbul. News & documentaries. Often @channel4news @BBC ex-@Reuters
Joined January 2010
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Emily Wither retweeted
What are Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump up to in Albania? 🎧 The Global Story bbc.in/4vdkDeH
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Albania has seen major protests over Ivanka Trump & Kushner's plans to develop luxury tourism there. I went on BBC Global Story to discuss why these demonstrations are far from over as young people challenge privilege & power. 🎧 bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct8mc4 📺tinyurl.com/58xnz225
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Emily Wither retweeted
Jun 3
Earlier this year we went to Albania's coast to make a documentary about this. We found sweeping development plans that would transform the area beyond recognition and locals completely in the dark about what was coming. Listen to the backstory 🎧
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Jun 3
"Albania is not for sale"
Thousands of Albanians protest against a tourism complex allegedly linked to Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner
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Emily Wither retweeted
Apr 8
What does Ivanka Trump want with a Balkan beach & why are the locals in court? We went to Albania's coast - where the communist past is still colliding with the present in disputes over land, ownership & corruption. Take a listen to our documentary 🎧 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tpq…
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Emily Wither retweeted
May 25
Ozgur Ozel’s opposition group defeated Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party in local elections in 2024. Since then it has faced a broad, sustained crackdown economist.com/europe/2026/05…
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May 25
Met with a striking near silence by the international community
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Police have stormed the headquarters of Turkey's main opposition party, firing tear gas and rubber bullets, and ending a three-day standoff by officials and supporters.
Among those inside was Ozgul Ozel, the man credited with reviving the CHP, whose 2023 election as party leader was annulled by an appeals court on Thursday, a ruling likely to further tighten President Erdogan's grip on power.
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Emily Wither retweeted
May 25
Recent developments are very important, but it's pretty hard to convince people outside Turkey that they should be expending their increasingly exhausted attention on yet another major milestone in one foreign country's ~15-year descent into authoritarianism.
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Emily Wither retweeted
The talented and wise @suzyhans has written an essay for @FTMag from an extract of her new book "From Life Itself" about what happened in one Istanbul neighbourhood over a decade of horrors and its so good... as.ft.com/r/20c475be-1a55-43…
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Emily Wither retweeted
May 2
Why is Trump withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany?
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Emily Wither retweeted
Apr 16
School shootings a new trauma for Turkey as nation mourns bbc.in/4vw1KEh
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Apr 15
Two school shootings in Turkey now in two days - not common here. A teacher and three students killed today in MaraĹź by a 16-year-old former student. Yesterday a similar attack in Urfa saw a 19-year-old former student open fire at his secondary school wounding 16 people.
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On From Our Own Correspondent this week with a dispatch from Albania’s coast which is drawing big-name developers like Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. But land disputes & environmental worries show the past still colliding with the country’s future.
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Emily Wither retweeted
Apr 12
“Istanbul stands with Budapest. The tide is turning.”
Erdogan’s top rival, writing from prison.
Hungary has chosen hope over fear, democracy over autocracy.
Tonight, the Hungarian people reminded Europe, and the world, that no strongman is invincible when citizens refuse to surrender their freedom.
From a prison cell in Silivri, I send my warmest congratulations to the Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar and to every voter who stood in line to defend the rule of law. Your victory belongs to all of us who believe that ballots are stronger than fear, and that justice, however delayed, is never defeated.
Istanbul stands with Budapest. The tide is turning.
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Emily Wither retweeted
Apr 9
Four people die attempting to cross Channel in small boat
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Emily Wither retweeted
Apr 5
US rescues downed airman as Trump threatens Tehran
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Emily Wither retweeted
Apr 4
Iran: search for missing US pilot continues
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Emily Wither retweeted
Years of political repression and creeping urban decay have hollowed out Istanbul's soul, designing dissent out of its once-vibrant streets and erasing its rich cosmopolitan past from popular memory.
My (sad) farewell to the city:
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