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Bermet Talant

  • Digital Producer and Journalist, SBS
Kyrgyzstan, Sydney, Turkey, Ukraine
As seen in: SBS, Medium, The Guardian, The Guardian Australia, El Diario, SBS News, The Feed (SBS), Radio Free Europe, SBS Dateline, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), DELFI Lithuania and
Covers:  Politics, corruption, conflicts, disinformation, women's rights
Digital producer @DatelineSBS. Ex-Ukraine, Central Asia reporter. 2021 @risj_oxford fellow

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Ships of death: This notorious industry is about to change, but is it greenwashing?

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By Colin Cosier , Bermet Talant
| SBS Dateline
Watch Dateline’s latest episode about Bangladesh’s ship-breaking industry on 10 June at 9.30pm AEST on SBS or SBS On Demand. Ship cutter Delwar Hossain’s job might be killing him but he’s worried he'll lose it. If his scrapyard doesn’t turn "green" by the end of June, he won’t have ships to cut, or money to feed his wife and two young children. And the notoriously polluted Bangladeshi beach where he works will soon lose most of its end-of-life cargo ships being cut apart in the mud.
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An airstrike killed six of Mohamad's family in Lebanon. But he doesn't only blame Israel

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By Bermet Talant, Darren Mara 
| SBS Dateline
Watch Dateline's latest episode from Lebanon — a country emerging from the ashes of war with Israel and asking what's next — on SBS On Demand. Lebanon: War, Peace And Hezbollah episode • Dateline • News And Current Affairs • 28m episode • Dateline • News And Current Affairs • 28m Standing in a field of rubble of what used to be his home, Mohamad Sabra can't hold back his tears and anger. Before the war, life in Lebanon was difficult but peaceful, even as .
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Why Trump and Elon Musk want to shut down the world's largest humanitarian aid donor

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By Bermet Talant
| SBS Dateline
Elon Musk called it "a criminal organisation". Donald Trump said it "has been run by a bunch of radical lunatics". After more than six decades of helping countries worldwide and weathering bipartisan efforts to slash its budget, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) may be facing permanent closure.
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