Peter Kenyon
Peter Kenyon is NPR's international correspondent based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Prior to taking this assignment in 2010, Kenyon spent five years in Cairo covering Middle Eastern and North African countries from Syria to Morocco. He was part of NPR's team recognized with two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards for outstanding coverage of post-war Iraq.
In addition to regular stints in Iraq, he has followed stories to Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain, Qatar, Algeria, Morocco and other countries in the region.
Arriving at NPR in 1995, Kenyon spent six years in Washington, D.C., working in a variety of positions including as a correspondent covering the US Senate during President Bill Clinton's second term and the beginning of the President George W. Bush's administration.
Kenyon came to NPR from the Alaska Public Radio Network. He began his public radio career in the small fishing community of Petersburg, where he met his wife Nevette, a commercial fisherwoman.
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Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian beat hard-liner Saeed Jalili in the runoff election to replace the late president who was killed in a helicopter crash in May. -
Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian received the most votes in Iran's snap presidential elections. But it wasn't enough to avoid a runoff with the second-place contender — a hard-line conservative. -
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Arch-foes Israel and Iran are firing missiles at each other. But the unprecedented attacks on each other's territory appear — for now — not to have sparked an all-out war.
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Iranian news has not reported any such strike and concluded the sounds reported were the interception of one or more drones. Israel's military has not responded to NPR's requests for comment. -
Iran blames Israel for a strike on its Syria consulate, and has vowed to retaliate. Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution transformed previously cordial relations between Iran and Israel to fierce hostility. -
In Iran, the crackdown on dissent continues long after the protests sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody. Iranians fleeing persecution at home are seeking shelter in Turkey.
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Nine mine workers were trapped underground after a landslide at a gold mine in Turkey's eastern Anatolia region. -
This week Turkey marked one year since the earthquake that killed more than 53,000 people in the country and left over 3 million homeless. Critics say the government hasn't met its promise to rebuild. -
Iran has attacked targets in Pakistan, Iran and Syria in recent days, and its militant proxies are also active. This adds to the tension in an already volatile region.
