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Sofia Cherici

Italy, Turkey
As seen in: El País, La Repubblica, The New Arab, Global Voices, EUobserver, Earth Island Journal, Follow the Money, New Lines Magazine, Transitions, Altreconomia and
Independent investigative journalist based in Istanbul | narrative, OSINT and on the ground | ITA & ENG | appeared in @FTM_eu @repubblica @newlinesmag
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How child labour and conflict feed Turkey steel boom

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By Sofia Cherici, Andrés Mourenza Verified, Mohammed Bassiki, Dogu Eroglu
| buff.ly
Tainted metal scrap sourced from conflict zones can ultimately become finished steel used by some of Europe’s top firms. The Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism Association (SIRAJ) and El País co-published a set of edited versions of this investigation. Ahmad* is 11 and has lost his hacksaw - or rather, it was stolen by a man whom he recognises as a former soldier of the toppled Syrian regime.
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How child labour and conflict feed Turkey steel boom

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By Sofia Cherici
| The New Arab Verified
Tainted metal scrap sourced from conflict zones can ultimately become finished steel used by some of Europe’s top firms. The Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism Association (SIRAJ) and El País co-published a set of edited versions of this investigation. Ahmad* is 11 and has lost his hacksaw - or rather, it was stolen by a man whom he recognises as a former soldier of the toppled Syrian regime.
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How child labour and conflict feed Turkey steel boom

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By Sofia Cherici, Andrés Mourenza Verified, Mohammed Bassiki, Dogu Eroglu
| The New Arab Verified
The Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism Association (SIRAJ) and El País co-published a set of edited versions of this investigation. Ahmad* is 11 and has lost his hacksaw - or rather, it was stolen by a man whom he recognises as a former soldier of the toppled Syrian regime. Only now, the man haunts the ruins of Damascus’s periphery with a pistol, clad in civilian clothes. Without the hacksaw, the day’s haul is paltry.
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