Chris Morris (born 1964) is a British broadcast journalist who regularly contributes to '' BBC News'', '' Today'' , ''BBC Reality Check'' and '' From Our Own Correspondent'', and is the author of the

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Granta publication ''

The New Turkey ''The New Turkey: The Quiet Revolution on the Edge of Europe'' is a 2005 Granta Books publication by BBC World Affairs Correspondent Chris Morris which examines the potential and the problems of the far-reaching political and economic reforms b ...

''.

Biography

Morris joined the

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in 1988 and was BBC Sri Lanka Correspondent from 1990–92 based in Colombo covering the Sri Lankan civil war and other

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stories including the assassination of

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and the rise of

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. He was BBC State Department Correspondent from 1994–97 based in Washington, D.C. covering crises in

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and North Korea, and travelling around the world with the US Secretary of State. He also reported on the Dayton Agreement and the

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. He was BBC Turkey Correspondent from 1997–2001 based first in Ankara and later opening the BBC's new bureau in Istanbul covering the

1999 İzmit earthquake On the 17th of August, 1999 at 3:01 AM local time, a catastrophic magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the Kocaeli Province of Turkey, causing monumental damage and 17,127–18,373 deaths. Named for the quakes proximity to the northeastern city of Izm ...

and the arrest and trial of the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan. He was BBC Europe Correspondent from 2001–2005 based in Brussels covering Enlargement of the European Union, the proposed European constitution, and other European stories including the murder of the

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Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh and the

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. During this period he also drew on his experience in Turkey to author ''

'' which examines the potential and the problems of the far-reaching political and economic reforms being undertaken in what the author describes as a second revolution in Turkey and was published by Granta in 2005. He was a BBC World Affairs Correspondent based in London from 2005 to 2007, reporting from conflict zones in Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian territories, and the Balkans. In 2007 he became the BBC's South Asia Correspondent based in Delhi, covering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

, before returning to Brussels in 2011. After returning to the UK, Morris began presenting ''Brexit: A Guide for the Perplexed'' on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. Its third series was broadcast in February 2018. Since November 2016 he writes and broadcasts on Brexit, fake news and other issues for BBC Reality Check.

References

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