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Amberin Zaman is Al-Monitor’s chief correspondent based in London and covers major stories on the Middle East and North Africa from across the region and beyond. Zaman’s reporting focuses on geopolitical trends, diplomacy and human rights. She has covered conflicts in Iraq, Syria and the South Caucasus. Zaman is widely acknowledged for her courageous work on Turkey and the Kurds for which she was named a “Hero” by the Coalition for Women in Journalism. Prior to joining Al-Monitor as a full time reporter in 2018, Zaman was The Economist’s Turkey correspondent for 16 years. Zaman was also a regular contributor to The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph, The Los Angeles Times and Voice of America and penned weekly columns in the Turkish language media. Zaman, who studied political science at Franklin College in Lugano Switzerland, speaks fluent French, Turkish and Bengali. Follow her on Twitter @amberinzaman and Instagram @amberinzamanjournalist.
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![Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his wife, Emine Erdogan, attend a rally in solidarity with Palestinians in Istanbul on October 28, 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-05/GettyImages-1749872951.jpg?h=1d34674f&itok=mbPMOZU2)
![A picture shows the Armenian car park in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 13, 2023. When bulldozers rolled into Jerusalem's Old City to start work on an Israeli settlement that would build a luxury hotel atop a fourth of the historic Armenian quarter, residents rapidly mobilized.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-05/GettyImages-1883570984%20copy.jpeg?h=088a5503&itok=FO-eKYi5)
![A boy waves a flag of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan as tens of thousands of Kurds gather during a rally of the DTP.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-05/GettyImages-78084578.jpg?h=6dbf6853&itok=n1ihVlG-)
![Members of the Secret Service stand guard as people wave Turkish flags during a rally in front of the White House in Washington,DC on May 16, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-05/GettyImages-683858136.jpg?h=827d3341&itok=DCsbXI8S)
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![This handout photograph taken and released by the Turkish Presidency Press Service on May 13, 2024 shows Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan posing before a meeting in Ankara.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-05/GettyImages-2152218331.jpg?h=1d34674f&itok=bHPct3VV)
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![Tourists visit the Chora (Kariye) Church Museum, the 11th century church of St. Savior on August 21, 2020 in Istanbul, Turkey.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-05/GettyImages-1267534058.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=2FAjJq6Y)
![Chairman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) in Turkey, Ozgur Ozel, delivers a speech during a rally by members of the Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions (Disk) calling for economic justice and protesting against the increasing tax burden on workers in Ankara on Nov. 17, 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-05/GettyImages-1786999717%20copy.jpeg?h=a5ae579a&itok=mB0-BshX)
![Iranians attend the funeral procession for seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members killed in a strike in Syria, which Iran blamed on Israel, in Tehran on April 5, 2024.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-04/GettyImages-2136576818%20copy.jpeg?h=a5ae579a&itok=mWg4O2Pp)
![US President Joe Biden (R) and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hold bilateral talks the NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 11, 2023. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-04/GettyImages-1523567297.jpg?h=29258262&itok=wdbeqtQ3)
![Turkish Van cats play in an enclosure at the Van Cat Research Center on Feb. 8, 2018, in Van, Turkey.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-04/GettyImages-915821506.jpg?h=17d914bd&itok=WBGYL6wh)
![Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and US President Joe Biden shake hands at the start of the first plenary session of the NATO summit at the Ifema congress centre in Madrid, on June 29, 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-04/GettyImages-1241602594.jpg?h=1d34674f&itok=mtDzKSqF)