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Jon Gorvett

Originally from Southampton, UK, Jon Gorvett left home for a holiday in Spain in 1990 and conspicuously failed to return. Since then he has lived and worked in a variety of places around the Mediterranean.

For the last nine years he has been based in Istanbul where he works as a stringer and correspondent for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Boston Globe, The Business, Al Jazeera, The Express, The Middle East and the Washington Report on the Middle East.

His articles have been published in journals as varied as The New Yorker and Pensions International, Private Eye and Tobacco Reporter.

A collaborator on the Time Out Guide to Istanbul and The Rough Guide to Turkey, he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.