Sophia Jones
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ISTANBUL — On a warm summer day in June last year, 21-year-old Soultan headed to his university campus in Damascus, where his classmates were being rounded up and arr...
The Turkish military is just watching as outgunned and outnumbered Kurdish fighters warn that a massacre is imminent in a town visible across the Syrian border. The fig...
Sophia Jones is the Middle East correspondent for The WorldPost. She has reported from Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, The West Bank and Gaza. Fo...
ISTANBUL — Turkish riot police wearing helmets and carrying plastic shields entered Istanbul University Wednesday morning to respond to another clash between students...
DALAKCI, Turkey — They waited inside the consulate for days like sitting ducks until the masked invaders of the Islamic State finally came for them. The staff of Turk...
ISTANBUL — When the United States asked Turkey to join a coalition to fight the Islamic State, Turkey answered with a resounding no, citing concern over the lives of ...
ISTANBUL — Bulgaria has forced at least 43 asylum-seeking Syrians back over the border to Turkey in the past month, violating international law, Human Rights Watch sa...
KILIS, Turkey — Outside of a Turkish bus station, weary travelers shuffle past a taxi driver shouting “To the fence!” in Arabic, offering rides to those wanting t...
REYHANLI, Turkey — In an empty car dealership turned Syrian rebel office in this Turkish border town, a group of cash-strapped fighters aligned with the U.S.-backed F...
ANTAKYA, Turkey — When mass anti-government protests erupted in Syria’s largest city of Aleppo in the spring of 2011, Abu Mohamed, then a 22-year-old English teache...
ISTANBUL — Israel has come under a barrage of criticism since announcing on Sunday its plans to seize 1,000 acres of Palestinian-claimed land — roughly the size of ...
ISTANBUL — Three generations of men in Ilya Avramoglu’s family have devoted their lives to women’s undergarments. But after 78 years in business, their Kelebek Co...
Dear Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, I usually take great pride in calling myself an alumna of The George Washington University — but not today. You made comments on t...
ISTANBUL — It seems like everyone is dumping ice water on their head these days for a cause. The ice bucket challenge to raise awareness for ALS has gone viral, raisi...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Sixteen years ago, Erzihan said goodbye to her daughter. The quiet and somber Kurdish mother remembers it like it was yesterday. “The police ca...
