Impact

Topic: Syria

  • Syria Project: Gaziantep – Final Day

    Originally published by Bill Fortier on CTV News Edmonton. As I end this adventure, I find it very hard to avoid the use of a cliché in the final blog post. I guess clichés became clichés because the words and phrases so effectively and accurately conveyed a point, that they became overused. So I’m going to use

  • Syria Project: Gaziantep – Day 9

    Originally published by Bill Fortier on CTV News Edmonton.  Ghazouah Almilagi lost her 12-year-old son in the Syrian civil war. He was killed by a dirty, indiscriminate bomb. Her son was near his school, receiving a reward for scholastic achievement. She says a Syrian military jet dropped a barrel bomb over the school. It landed

  • Syria Project: Gaziantep – Day 6

    Originally published by Bill Fortier on CTV News Edmonton. There are certain sentences you don’t expect to hear in Gaziantep, Turkey. One of them is “Canada is my favourite country.” Saturday night, our server told us that. He assured me, he wasn’t just saying that because I happened to be Canadian. You might think it’s

  • Syria Project: Gaziantep – Day 5

    Originally published by Bill Fortier on CTV News Edmonton. “OK, There has been an incident.” Those were the words out of Zein Almoghraby’s mouth after “good morning” and a brief and somewhat tense conversation in Arabic, with Tammam Hazem, as we sat down for breakfast Friday.  Zein is a senior programs manager for Journalists for

  • Syria Project: Gaziantep – Day 2

    Originally published by Bill Fortier on CTV News Edmonton. 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. My role here is a leadership one. I am teaching skills

  • Syria Project: Gaziantep – Day 1

    Originally published by Bill Fortier on CTV News Edmonton. I think it’s safe to assume that Reem Haleb still has a scar from where a bullet broke her skin five years ago. Today, Haleb runs Nasaem Radio Syria, a station broadcasting out of Gaziantep, Turkey. In 2012, she was shooting footage of a protest in