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Europe Correspondent
Liz Cookman is Europe Correspondent for The Observer, based in Istanbul. She has covered Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the weeks preceding it, living there for nearly three years. She won a British Journalism Award for Features in 2025, and Amnesty’s Gaby Rado Award in 2023, as well as receiving other accolades and shortlistings. She began her career in the Middle East, and has reported from Syria, Somalia, Algeria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Romania, among other places.
Liz Cookman
Europe Correspondent
Liz Cookman is Europe Correspondent for The Observer, based in Istanbul. She has covered Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the weeks preceding it, living there for nearly three years. She won a British Journalism Award for Features in 2025, and Amnesty’s Gaby Rado Award in 2023, as well as receiving other accolades and shortlistings. She began her career in the Middle East, and has reported from Syria, Somalia, Algeria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Romania, among other places.