Lizzie Porter
Turkey Correspondent at The National
Award-winning correspondent in Turkey for @thenationalnews. Prev. Beirut & Baghdad. English, français, العربيّة, فارسى, Türkçe öğreniyorum. All views my own.
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1 week ago |
thenationalnews.com | Lizzie Porter
On a busy motorway in central Istanbul's Aksaray area, white coaches printed with Farsi slogans stood parked at the side of the road on Friday as travellers milled about smoking and drinking from bottles of water before taking their seats for the 36-hour ride to Tehran. "It's their home, what would you do if something like this happened in your country? You would want to go home," says Abofazl, a coach driver from northern Iran.
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1 week ago |
thenationalnews.com | Lizzie Porter
The jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan needs better communication with the outside world to manage the militant group's proposed disarmament and political transition, pro-Kurdish leaders in Turkey have said. "Mr Ocalan will personally lead this disarmament process," Tulay Hatimogullari, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, said in Istanbul on Wednesday.
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1 week ago |
thenationalnews.com | Lizzie Porter
The pictures came in one after the other: a statue of Arash the Archer, a mythological character believed to have shot an arrow marking the border of ancient Iran. Next, a picture of Picasso's Guernica, one of the world's most famous paintings opposing war. A resident of Tehran sent the pictures via WhatsApp with a message: Iranians are proud nationalists with a long history, and do not want conflict. "Our nation knows how to resist and stand firm.
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1 week ago |
thenationalnews.com | Lizzie Porter
In less than 48 hours, Israel killed a tranche of Iran’s top military brass in its multipronged attack. They included the heads of the commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s most powerful military force, the IRGC’s aerospace commander, responsible for missile and drone programmes, and the chief of staff of the armed forces.
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1 week ago |
thenationalnews.com | Thomas Helm |Lizzie Porter |Sinan Mahmoud |Tim Stickings
Israel and Iran were on a war footing on Sunday as a third day of strikes led to evacuations, emergency shelter plans and frantic efforts to contain the Middle East conflict. The Israeli military said it was hitting “dozens more targets” in Tehran, hinting at a lengthy campaign as warplanes bombed military sites, laboratories and a tanker aircraft in Iran. Iranian state media said car bombs had blown up near government buildings on Sunday.
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