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Carlotta Gall is a British journalist and author. She covered
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and
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for ''
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'' for twelve years. She was also their Istanbul bureau chief covering Turkey, and now covers the war in Ukraine.


Career

Daughter of veteran Scottish journalist Sandy Gall, Carlotta Gall started her newspaper career with ''
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'', in
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, in 1994, and covered the first war in Chechnya intensively for the paper, among other stories all over the former Soviet Union. She also freelanced for British papers (''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
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'') as well as American publications (''
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'', ''
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'' and ''The New York Times''). In 1996 she co-authored with
Thomas de Waal Thomas Patrick Lowndes de Waal (born 1966) is a British journalist and writer on the Caucasus. He is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe. He is best known for his 2003 book '' Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War''. Li ...
, ''Chechnya: A Small Victorious War''. The following year, they published ''Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus'', which was awarded the James Cameron Prize for Distinguished Reporting in the UK. Gall was awarded the Kurt Schork award for international freelance journalism in 2002, the Interaction award for international reporting in 2005, and was awarded the Edward Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting by
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's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy in 2007. In 1998 she moved to the ''
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'' and ''
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'' reporting on the Caucasus and Central Asia from Baku,
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...
. From 1999 to 2001 Gall worked in the Balkans for the ''New York Times'', covering the wars in
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,
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and
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and developments in
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and the rest of the former
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. From 2001 to 2013, she was based in Afghanistan, as a correspondent with ''The New York Times'' for Pakistan and Afghanistan. From 2013 to 2017, she was the newspaper's
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correspondent based in
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and then the Times' bureau chief in
Istanbul Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ...
,
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; she now covers the war in Ukraine.


Publication and documentary

Gall is featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary '' Taxi to the Dark Side'' (2007). She was the first journalist to report the story of two Afghans who died in US custody at Bagram air base ( Parwan Detention Facility). The case of an Afghan taxi driver beaten to death in 2002 while in US-military custody forms the heart of the documentary's examination of the abuses committed during the detainment and interrogation of political prisoners. Gall investigated the death of cab driver Dilawar, officially declared by the military to be from natural causes, but uncovered what she considers to be incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. In 2014 in her book '' The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014'' she accused the ISI, Pakistan's clandestine intelligence service, of hiding and protecting
Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden (10 March 19572 May 2011) was a militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, Bin Laden participated in the Afghan ''mujahideen'' against the Soviet Union, and support ...
and his family after the
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.


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Journalisted - Articles by Carlotta Gall
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