narrative & investigative journalism from Turkey
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Naomi Cohen is a freelance journalist based in Istanbul. Her longform and feature articles look at precarity in Turkey, especially having to do with labor, land and security. She settled in Turkey in 2019 after living there on and off since 2014 and previously reported from Iraq, Greece, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, France, the UK and the US.
Her work has been published in The New York Review of Books (online), The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Aljazeera, The Economist, n+1, LA Review of Books, Le Monde diplomatique (online), Roads & Kingdoms/Slate, NBC News, Newlines, The New Humanitarian, Middle East Eye, Eurasia Net, Dissent Magazine, Warscapes and Telesur English. It has been supported by grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Pulitzer Center and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Alongside her work as a journalist, Naomi produces and co-directs documentaries, fixes, fact checks and translates between Turkish, French, Spanish and English. Her first feature hybrid documentary, “The Rooster in the Room,” was selected as a Work-in-Progress at Antalya Film Forum.
In 2021, she used research from her Pulitzer Center-supported investigation to create a collaborative multimedia installation for the exhibit “Finding a Cure in Istanbul,” held in a tunnel of the Istanbul city metro. She then curated its accompanying academic webinar “Healing in the City” with the Columbia Global Center in Istanbul.
Outside of work, Naomi organizes with disaster solidarity groups for locals and migrants in Istanbul.
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