Award-winning correspondent based in Turkey for The National newspaper. English, français, العربيّة, فارسى, Türkçe öğreniyorum. I like elegant writing, translation, textiles, and the sea. All views are my own.
Lizzie Porter
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Sahba Rashtian would have been 24 this week. Instead, her sister Yalda posted pictures of her daffodil and sunflower-strewn grave on Instagram.
"I am sorry that the future we imagined has become impossible.”
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Lizzie Porter
Things you learn every day: the founder of Spanish fashion giant Mango Isak Andic, who plunged to his death on a hike in 2024, was born in Istanbul
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“I laugh every I can’t stop laughing every time I say ‘internet pro.' It’s just a strategy for some of the internet service providers like Irancell to make some money.” www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
The numbers are mind-bending: inflation in #Iran is crippling the quality of life of millions of people.
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Ms Ahmadi’s YouTube page published a message in which she described herself as a “girl who wants to sing for the people I love”.
“This is a right I could not ignore; singing for the land I love passionately."
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#Iran’s middle class is disappearing. Carbohydrates are replacing protein as it becomes too expensive.
Wild inflation comes on top of the trauma of war & brutal crackdown on protests in Jan.
My in depth piece on an economy at the brink www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
Why did #Iran attack #Kuwait & #Bahrain this week? Tehran feels the need to assert its strength ; it wants to deter any action by the #US or #Israel that may make it lose its leverage over #Hormuz (or appear to do so).
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#Iran ‘s ultraconservatives have been rallying against a deal. They also attempt to continue to impose curbs on Iranians’ lives, even though many have made it clear that they don’t want to live by hardline rules.
My piece on the extreme end of Iran’s Principalists
Ahead of #Iran's match against Belgium tonight, I wrote about all the Iranian footballers killed & detained in January's anti-government protests
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Turkish police forced the evacuation of the country’s main opposition party headquarters on Sunday, in a dramatic escalation of a legal crackdown on rivals of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Lizzie Porter
Lizzie Porter
Lizzie Porter
Dozens of people linked to the game were detained and killed in January protests
