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BBC Turkey Correspondent. Previously based in Athens and Belgrade. Portugal in my heart. All views my own.

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Joined December 2010
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  1. 18 minutes ago

    A headscarved woman urinated on by Gezi protesters, Chomsky championing Erdogan, the BBC complicit in Besiktas stadium attack:some of the baseless claims that rank 1st of countries exposed to made-up stories. My piece for our series

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  2. Nov 14

    Wonderful news for a great journalist and lovely person: ‘terror propaganda’ case against is thrown out by a Turkish court. A shame it was ever brought. So many others here face the same baseless charge

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  3. Nov 13

    Boarded a flight as Trump launched the first tweet. Landed to see the firestorm that followed. Absolutely extraordinary.

    The bromance is over!
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  4. Nov 13

    The man who spent hundreds of millions of euros on atrociously ugly statues and monuments in Skopje to create a sense of history rather than, for example education or healthcare.

    The former Macedonian PM, Nikola Gruevski, says he has applied for asylum in Hungary. Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is one of his main foreign backers — in part, ironically, because of Gruevski’s perceived role in stemming migration through Macedonia to Hungary.
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  5. Nov 13

    6.50am. Time for an early morning coffee and another twitter outburst on the same topic as last week and against the man who just hosted him at the Élysée.

    Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia. But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two - How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!
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    Her name is « Mademoiselle Paulette Monnier » as she sweetly told on BBC

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  7. Nov 12

    And yet ’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says he’s not aware of his government being given the audio, accusing of “playing political games”. Who’s to believe?

    Erdogan's communications director says French intelligence official heard audio of Khashoggi's killing almost 3 weeks ago - on October 24 - and was also provided with a transcript.
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    Nov 12

    A+ trolling by the French Army

    Il y a de la pluie, mais c'est pas grave 😅 On reste motivé 👊
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    Nov 12

    Justin Trudeau says Canadian intelligence officials have listened to recordings of Jamal Khashoggi’s last moments: Reuters

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  10. Nov 11

    A powerful call by to protect postwar multilateral liberal democracy. “Nationalism is the opposite of patriotism...it betrays our moral values”. A message to those in the crowd: Putin, Trump, Erdogan, Netanyahu... ’s President is fighting new battles today.

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  11. Nov 11

    Extraordinary front pages from , 100 years since the guns fell silent on the western front: “Why threatens us” and “’s other front”. War may be a distant memory in this country but the postwar western liberal order and traditional alliances feel a new threat.

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  12. Nov 10

    Bonjour de where we’ll be on air all day to mark the commemoration of when the guns fell silent at 11am exactly a hundred years ago. Some 70 heads of government and state to gather at the Arc de Triomphe later this morning.

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  13. Nov 10

    This was one of those moments that makes doing live TV such a joy. As I watched armistice commemoration, Paulette Monier, who turns 100 years old on Monday, walked past. So I decided to interview her live . What a great lady.

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  14. Nov 10

    Chancellor Merkel and President Macron stop to talk to Paulette, an amazing lady with fantastic energy.

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  15. Nov 10

    Wonderful moment to meet Paulette Monier at commemoration, who turns 100 the day after tomorrow. “I never thought I’d see the French and German leaders together like this today”, she tells me. “My message to everyone here is no more war - we must be together”

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    Nov 10

    Starting at 1430 GMT special coverage of the commemorations in France & Belgium of the end of the First World War. Join , me on News & the BBC News Channel.

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  17. Nov 10

    The clearing in forest where 100 years ago the WWI armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany - and where Hitler negotiated ’s surrender 22 years later. Today and pay respects here - a poignant sign of how far their countries have come

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    Nov 10

    Turkish president says he shared Khashoggi recordings with Riyadh, Paris and Washington

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  19. Nov 10

    In today’s ⁦⁩: When received the leaders of , and , he began by blaming them for the war in Yugoslavia. It took them a few moments to realise he’d mixed up the Balkans and the Baltics. ⁦⁩

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  20. Nov 10

    The post-Brunson love-in is over. We’re back to slamming.

    Erdogan slams US for putting bounty on key PKK terrorists, while cooperating with terror group at the same time
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