Peter Kenyon
Peter Kenyon is NPR's international correspondent based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Prior to taking this assignment in 2010, Kenyon spent five years in Cairo covering Middle Eastern and North African countries from Syria to Morocco. He was part of NPR's team recognized with two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards for outstanding coverage of post-war Iraq.
In addition to regular stints in Iraq, he has followed stories to Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain, Qatar, Algeria, Morocco and other countries in the region.
Arriving at NPR in 1995, Kenyon spent six years in Washington, D.C., working in a variety of positions including as a correspondent covering the US Senate during President Bill Clinton's second term and the beginning of the President George W. Bush's administration.
Kenyon came to NPR from the Alaska Public Radio Network. He began his public radio career in the small fishing community of Petersburg, where he met his wife Nevette, a commercial fisherwoman.
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The leaders of Russia and Turkey are meeting to discuss reviving the agreement that allowed Ukraine to move grain through the Black Sea — despite the Russian invasion that has endangered shipping.
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What started out as an exploration of a Roman garrison has uncovered artifacts dating back to the time of the Assyrian Empire. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on July 30, 2023.)
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Thousands of survivors of the earthquakes that devastated Turkey in the spring are still displaced and struggling to rebuild, despite the president's promise of rapid reconstruction.
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In Iran, the morality police are back on the streets and officials are promising strict enforcement of mandatory Islamic headscarf rules for women.
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In Iran, mass protests against rules forcing women to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf, have ended. But demonstrators are finding new ways to make their voices heard.
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Erdogan is set to continue his run as modern Turkey's longest-serving leader. He won Sunday's runoff despite having faced widespread anger at his government's response to a devastating quake.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in a strong position to win the election — despite a devastating earthquake that many observers predicted would end his rule.
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Supporters of opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu are strategizing on how to improve his chances in the May 28 runoff with incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Neither longtime Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan nor his main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu were able to win more than 50% of the vote. That means Turkey is heading for a runoff on May 28.
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It looks like Turkey's presidential election is heading for a runoff between incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu.