Fellows & Editors
Laura Pitel
- Trip:
- Fellows 2017
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Turkey
- Year:
- 2017
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Laura Pitel is a freelance journalist based in Ankara, the Turkish capital. She covers Turkish politics and society, the economy and foreign policy. Her work has been published in The Financial Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The New Statesman, among others. Prior to taking the plunge into freelance work, she spent six years as a staff reporter at The Times of London, including a three-year stint covering British politics as a Westminster correspondent. She speaks Turkish, Arabic and French.
Stories
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Sex education offers Syrian women the chance of a better life
Sitting cross-legged around the edge of the bright and airy living room in an old Turkish stone house, the group of assembled women is transfixed. Ghazwa al-Milaji is making elaborate hand gestures. ...
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Women and war: facing into the danger zones
On the third Wednesday of March last year, eight people were laid to rest at the Yeşilkent cemetery in the Turkish city of Gaziantep. Each burial was careful recorded, with the...
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Meet the Syrian refugee girls facing child marriage in Turkey
Dalal Abdullah is just 13, but her mother has already had to fend off a string of requests for her hand in marriage. A rich Syrian who knew the family back in Aleppo...
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A day on the factory floor for a young refugee
At 6am, seven-year-old Mohammed Nour Abdullah sets out for work. He walks past a park, along a busy road, turns down a side street and slips through a pink doorway. Inside is...
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