I have reported on Turkey for many different publications and in many different areas. As a sample, this essay - on my relationship to the country - has been the most personal, and most meaningful to write. Other long form pieces have focused more on Turkey’s politics, from this piece marking the AKP’s eighteen years in power, to this work on the Kurdish Question, as seen from Diyarbakir.

Others have been more tied to everyday stories: the treatment of refugees out on the western border, the effect of the pandemic in Van to the east, the politics of grief in the south-east, and of course Turkey’s ever changing relationship with the outside world. Plus, the essential news of Istanbul’s new twenty-four hour ferries. There have been numerous others.

One of the best received pieces I’ve ever written was not about Turkey at all, but the belated obituary of Prince Nico Mbarga, the Nigerian-Cameroonian artist behind Africa’s most successful ever record. Regardless of the setting, I’ve always been drawn to histories - how they are remembered, and how they are forgotten - such as this episode, of the Mozambicans sent to East Germany during the Cold War.