My first piece from this part of the world, co-authored with my buddy Mohamad

Finally got around to listening to Lethal Dissent. Brave reporting & incredible storytelling from @faribanawa.bsky.social @berileski.bsky.social @farooqumar.bsky.social on how #Iranian dissidents are surveilled & silenced in exile. Final episode broke me. www.onspecpodcast.com/season-five-...

Delighted my @VanityFair.com story on counterfeit Ozempic, Shots in the Dark, has won @NYPressClub award for magazine consumer reporting. Great addt'l reporting by @berileski.bsky.social @katherineli.bsky.social. Stellar editing by @tapeslammike.bsky.social. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

When you and @berileski.bsky.social bizarrely mug match across continents ❤️

Historic day in Turkey as PKK says it will disband and disarm. Here's our dispatch for the @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

#Türkiye: Medyada İnovasyon podcast serisinin 7. bölümünde Uraz Kaspar, gazeteci Beril Eski'yle uluslararası medyaya haber yapma, The New York Times'ın medyadaki inovatif rolü ve ekip çalışmasının haber kalitesine katkısını konuşuyor. Bölümümüze davetlisiniz. 🎙️ https://buff.ly/3PDXa2S

@washingtonpost.com's @kareemf.bsky.social, Loveday Morris, @leloveluck.bsky.social, @gregpmiller.bsky.social, @mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social and @berileski.bsky.social account of the fall of Syria's Assad: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

Long read on the collapse of the Assad regime, based on interviews on every side. by @washingtonpost.com’s @mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social @leloveluck.bsky.social @kareemf.bsky.social @berileski.bsky.social @gregpmiller.bsky.social & Loveday Morris www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

Press Freedom Mission urges Turkey to immediately withdraw law labeling critics as spies - ‘Agents of influence’ bill would brand government opponents as engaging in espionage freeturkeyjournalists.ipi.media/press-freedo...

Want to follow news from Turkey? Or hire someone to report it? Check out our starter pack of FMA members - media professionals from many countries covering Turkey and the region for international outlets. More names coming soon! go.bsky.app/5zifXta

(haberimi diğer platformlardan önce ilk kez burada paylaşıyorum :) burası büyüsün çok istiyorum) Yapay zekaya Türkiye'de kimler akıl veriyor? 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=k92u...

Oh and an Italian dance act who filmed a video there, influencers who keep breaking into the site. Then there's the angry townspeople who either want the entire thing to be demolished, or want the castles to be finished –by a Turkish state organisation that involves the presidency.

Since construction stopped at the site, there has been a contractor with a vendetta against the developers, an attempted suicide at the site, and an increasing diplomatic row with Kuwait, as over 150 disgruntled buyers say they want their $300,000 castles. But will they ever be finished?

Ever heard of the mystery of the 732 empty Disney-style castles in the middle of the Turkish countryside? The excellent @berileski.bsky.social and I followed the strange tale of how they came to be there in the first place, and why they've been abandoned (and crumbling) since 2016.

Also a finalist is an amazing journo in Beril Eski (she's here @berileski.bsky.social ) whose high caliber investigative journo work chasing hidden money trails and documenting state repression is published in @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com and other placrs. Congrats Beril and well done👏🏿👏🏿