Sophia Jones
Latest From Author
ISTANBUL — Gender equality is “against nature,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a controversial speech at an Istanbul women’s conference today. �...
ISTANBUL —The parents of jailed Australian journalist Peter Greste, who is serving a seven-year sentence in Egypt for what have been widely denounced as false charges...
ISTANBUL — Serdar Gocmen didn’t hesitate last year when he killed his wife with a kitchen knife, witnesses say. He walked into the Cumhur Hair Salon in Istanbul and...
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...
UPDATE: Nov. 14, 4:50 p.m. — Norwegian filmmakers have told BBC Trending they are behind the viral video that appeared to show a Syrian boy running through sniper fir...
ISTANBUL — When the United Arab Emirates deported prominent democracy activist Iyad el-Baghdadi in late April, he disappeared for nearly six months. On Oct. 22, he re...
ISTANBUL — Forty years ago, Istanbul University was a battleground for clashes between leftist and far-right student activists, leading up to the Turkish military’s...
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 — A gruesome video being circulated online by Syrian activists appears to show extremists from the hardline Islamic State group stoning a woman to death in S...
ISTANBUL — For weeks, Turkey has barred Turkish Kurds from crossing the border into Syria to defend their ethnic fellows in Kobani against the Islamic State’s wrath...
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 — A war of words seems to be brewing between Egypt’s top state newspaper Al Ahram and The New York Times. On Oct. 9, Al Ahram published a story that mistra...
ISTANBUL — If it weren’t for the videos coming out of Syria — often shot on cellphones — that are regularly uploaded to social media sites and used by news agen...
ISTANBUL — Istanbul Fashion Week, abuzz with Turkey’s forefront designers and fashion icons, opened Monday with a salute to the country’s rich past. Menswear desi...
ISTANBUL — Kobani, a Kurdish town in northern Syria just a stone’s throw from the Turkish border, wasn’t widely known until recently. But now, with the Islamic St...
