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Lizzie Porter

Lizzie Porter is a freelance foreign news and features journalist with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa

<p>Suna Ozturk sits in front of a poster of people missing since the earthquakes in Turkey, while at home in Aksaray. Her daughter and two grandsons went missing in the disaster</p>

The painful search for loved ones a year after Turkey’s earthquakes

<p>Iranian Kurdish refugee Husein Karimi sits with a folder of precious documents in his living room in the Barika refugee camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in April 2021</p>

Trapped in Iraq, Iranian Kurds are fearful for their future

Oxford University invests £630,000 in US firm that profits from