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Co-founder, editor-in-chief, pun-runner @Turkeyrecap. Pitch me. Moved next door: substack.com/@diegocupolo

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Diego Cupolo’s Biography

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Diego Cupolo is a multimedia journalist based in Turkey since 2015. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Turkey recap newsletter as well as a founding board member of the Kolektif Medya Derneği, a non-profit media organization in Istanbul, Turkey.

His articles have appeared in The Atlantic, The Economist, Foreign Policy and Politico, among other publications. His audio, photo and video work has been featured by Agence France-Presse, The Financial Times, the Serial podcast and others.

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Voices of Turkey's Purged

Voices of Turkey's Purged

The night of July 15, Seda was at home in Erzurum, a town in eastern Turkey, when she got a call from her son…

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Freed From the Islamic State, but Far From Free

Freed From the Islamic State, but Far From Free

DOHUK, Iraq - During her 19 months of captivity under the Islamic State, Nofa Mahlo, a 37-year-old Yazidi wom…

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Real-life accounts of what it's like to be "smuggled like drugs" across Europe

Real-life accounts of what it's like to be "smuggled like drugs" across Europe

"They smuggle us like drugs," says Yassir, a 23-year-old Afghan. "And if we don't do what they say, they thre…

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Turkey's Covert War

Turkey's Covert War

In Diyarbakir, Turkey, large pieces of white tarp hang vertically in the alleys, blocking the view of anyone …

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Amid rats and mud, refugees struggle in French camp

Amid rats and mud, refugees struggle in French camp

Not far from the "Jungle" in Calais, 3,000 people live among foul swamps in another refugee camp. The inhuman…

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The Price of Gold in the Twenty-First Century

The Price of Gold in the Twenty-First Century

In June 2014, the Peruvian government moved to gut the nation's already dismal environmental policies in effo…

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Articles

The Ankara Corral

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By Diego Cupolo
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Five years ago, European Commission Pres. Ursula von der Leyen couldn’t even get a chair in Ankara. Yesterday, she and other world leaders got personally engraved handguns. Reis-pect earned? In this week’s recap: Uncertainty lingers for US-Turkey jet deals Turkish defense industry courts global partners Domestic and diplomatic wraps Everything else that trended during the summit Duct tape binds all. Presidential podiums, NATO logos included.
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Wanna Be Startin' Summit

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By Diego Cupolo
| Turkey recap
In 1983, a Rolling Stone review of our NATO anthem said “the emotions are so raw that the song nearly goes out of control.” Same goes for next week’s summit. Sing it! NATO se, NATO sa, NATO Aspava.
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Partişans

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By Diego Cupolo
| Turkey recap
Roads first made Ankara and then its viral trends. This week’s social media phenomenon involves testing which cars can conquer a very steep incline in Çankaya. Toros lover, there’s no other.
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Awards

Humanitarian Award for raising awareness of the Syrian refugee crisis

2014 - Humanitarian Journalism

Recognized by the charity Human Concern International for raising awareness of the refugee crisis through public speeches and my book "Seven Syrians: War Accounts From Syrian Refugees".

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