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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Secretary of State Pompeo meets with the Turkish foreign minister to talk about missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
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North Carolina pastor Andrew Brunson had been detained in Turkey for his alleged ties to political groups involved in a failed 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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More details are emerging about the disappearance of a Saudi Arabian journalist and Washington Post contributor who was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, eight days ago.
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U.S. officials are rejecting Iran's claims that an American-backed country was behind Saturday's attack on a military parade in Iran.
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Iranians say they're feeling the strain of an economic crisis and they know it could get worse as the U.S. ramps up sanctions. But many Iranians blame their government.
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With Turkey's currency volatile and an ongoing battle between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Trump, Turks are tense about their economic future, but not in a panic.
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Iran is one of the only countries where women and girls must wear the traditional garment by law. These activists are breaking the rules in protest.
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President Trump's offer to hold talks with the Iranian president may just complicate pressure that Hassan Rouhani is receiving from hardliners at home.
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The president said he'd be willing to meet with Iran's leaders. His comment comes days before some U.S. sanctions on Iran go back into place, following the decision to pull out of the nuclear deal.
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So far, more than 130,000 people have been sacked from the military, police, civil service and academia in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's crackdown, known in Turkey as "the purge."
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The head of Iran's judiciary described Trump's comments as the "words of a troublemaker." The president tweeted Iran risked consequences if it made threats against the U.S.
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Trump tweeted about the dangers to Iran of making threats. Iran's president said American must understand that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace and war with Iran is the mother of all wars.