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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Many Iranians trying to get to the U.S. had been blocked by Trump administration rules. They — and some spouses already here — hope it will be possible now.
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Authorities in Turkey are seeing massive student protests over the appointment of a ruling party official to run a prestigious university. More than 160 people have been detained by police.
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Turkey says it has vaccinated more than a million front-line workers against COVID-19, and is now vaccinating people in their 80s. The country is hard hit — even as weekend lockdowns continue.
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One year after the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, NPR correspondents discuss what happened since and what Iran policy might look like under the Biden administration.
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The new eight-part Netflix miniseries —Ethos — is making waves in Turkey for its ambitious look at the social and economic divides in Turkish society.
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One of the key foreign policy areas facing President-elect Joe Biden is Iran. He wants to reach out to Iran after taking office, but recent attacks and sanctions could be driving the country away.
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Iranians with illnesses are having trouble getting medicines amid U.S. sanctions on the country. The sanctions don't target medicines but seem to be affecting them anyway.
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Turkey's hosting of millions of Syrian refugees has generated a backlash, and the government says too many are living in Istanbul. Some have been ordered to leave within two weeks.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said some Saudis suspected in the journalist's death would have their visas to enter the U.S. revoked. Targeted sanctions against Saudis are also being discussed.
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In the city of Qom, ayatollahs and hardliners fret that their government relinquished too much in its nuclear deal with the U.S. and other world powers. "God knows what we gave up," says an ayatollah.
