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Syria Project

Syria Project: CTV Edmonton and Journalists for Human Rights

  • Bill Fortier signs a banner, also signed by others who participated in the same program.

    Syria Project: Gaziantep – Final Day

    As I end this adventure, I find it very hard to avoid the use of a cliché in the final blog post.

  • Bill Fortier (with a translator) interviews Ghazouah Almilagi, a journalist whose son was killed by a bomb in Syria.

    Syria Project: Gaziantep - Day 9

    Today, I learned the meaning of the word “forgiveness.” It took a person who probably doesn’t know the English word to teach me what it meant.

  • Gaziantep, Turkey

    Syria Project: Gaziantep – Day 6

    There are certain sentences you don’t expect to hear in Gaziantep, Turkey. One of them is “Canada is my favourite country.”

  • Staff at Liwan TV/Radio in Gaziantep, Turkey.

    Syria Project: Gaziantep – Day 5

    Thursday night, a young female Syrian journalist and her mother were killed in Istanbul. A Turkish newspaper reports the two women were strangled, then stabbed.

  • Nasaem Radio Syria

    Syria Project: Gaziantep – Day 2

    You learn four hundred new things every day. If that’s not quite how the saying goes, please forgive me. That’s my reality this week. This is the experience of a western journalist in Gaziantep, Turkey.

  • Gaziantep, Turkey

    Syria Project: Gaziantep - Day 1

    I think it’s safe to assume that Reem Haleb still has a scar from where a bullet broke her skin five years ago.

  • Istanbul, Turkey

    Syria Project: Day 1

    As we end our first half day in Istanbul, I suppose it's time to open this blog.