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

Istanbul and beyond
Joined December 2010
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  1. 2 hours ago

    BBC has learned that Turkish government is coming under renewed pressure to cease buying gold from Venezuela & Turkey is now considered "by far the biggest concern" of all countries engaging in the trade, partly due to suspicions some of it going to Iran, violating US sanctions.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Court in accepts indictment charging employee of consulate with espionage, attempts to overthrow govt, could face life in prison. Senior US official said not seen evidence from Turkish authorities to support charges. Another block to Turkey-US relations.

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    Jan 31

    Ex Culture Secretary John Whittingdale on the ‘unpronounceable’ Europeans who might support the UK’s renegotiation ...

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    I think we can trust these people to secure a deal
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  4. Jan 31

    That’s one way of putting it

    AK Party to conduct special election campaign in Turkey's southeast
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    Jan 30

    New Turkish Cinema law: an 8 member commission will decide if locally produced or imported films are 'suitable' before giving permission to show.

    'Sinema Kanunu' yayımlandı: "Sekiz üyeden oluşacak komisyon, ülke içinde üretilen veya ithal edilen sinema filmlerinin, gösterime sunulmasından önce değerlendirilmesini yapılacak. Uygun bulunmayan…
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  6. Jan 30

    Love this. The mode of transport reflecting the mood at Westminster? (Needless to say, a slight technical problem there...)

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    ⁦⁩ announcing that ⁦⁩ is to fly to Brussels in WW2 spitfire. 🤔
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  7. Jan 30

    Just caught up with first episode of Norma Percy's excellent . Fantastic access to European leaders and Downing Street inner circle leading up to Brexit vote. And a revealing account of misplaced assumptions and where it all went wrong for Cameron.

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  8. Jan 29

    "It's a scandal", says Omer Celik, AKP spokesman, "an international investigation should be launched". Well...all it would take for that international investigation to be launched is for to submit a request to the UN for it to happen.

    UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard, leading fact-finding team on murder, says hasn't granted them permission to enter consulate. She's joined by British barrister Baroness Helena Kennedy, Portuguese prof of forensic medicine Duarte Nuno Vieira
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  9. Jan 29

    UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard, leading fact-finding team on murder, says hasn't granted them permission to enter consulate. She's joined by British barrister Baroness Helena Kennedy, Portuguese prof of forensic medicine Duarte Nuno Vieira

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  10. Jan 28

    The creativeness - and the chutzpah!

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    Trump, six, flip, cuckoo, Huckabee, Mueller... 💋
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    Jan 27

    Too good to be true. And yet it is.

    . honors the winners of the Gender Balance Index 2018. The Index features three categories: Best Personality for Supporting Gender Balance, Best Federal Entity for Supporting Gender Balance, and the…
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  12. Jan 27

    A brilliant journalist and a lovely person, who has always stood up for press freedom and democracy. Crazy that he is on trial for doing his job.

    The trial on RSF representative resumes tomorrow in Istanbul. The prosecutor is likely to present his requests!…
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    Jan 25

    Never again will an English-challenged Eurovision presenter be forced to wrap their tongues around the phrase ’Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’.

    BREAKING: Greek parliament passes bill, with 153 of 300 MPs voting in favour. will now recognise its northern neighbour under the name 'Republic of North Macedonia', ending 28 year-old name dispute that's blocked its NATO & EU accession.
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  14. Jan 25

    Now's your time

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  15. Jan 25

    BREAKING: Greek parliament passes bill, with 153 of 300 MPs voting in favour. will now recognise its northern neighbour under the name 'Republic of North Macedonia', ending 28 year-old name dispute that's blocked its NATO & EU accession.

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  16. Jan 25

    As MPs continue voting on the bill, shouts of "traitors" echo from the couple of hundred demonstrators outside the parliament building

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  17. Jan 24

    The brotherhood of...?

    Venezuelan President Maduro hails support of Turkey, Russia, China
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    Jan 24

    court orders release of hunger striking Kurdish MP:

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  19. Jan 24

    The crash of a tear gas round by police to clear the last few hundred from Syntagma Square in

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  20. Jan 24

    Tear gas fired as demo in turns angry

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