Nuri Kino, (born February 25, 1965, Mardin Province, Turkey), is a
Swedish-Assyrian award-winning investigative journalist, documentary
filmmaker, author and human rights expert. He is the author of several
nonfiction books, and hundreds of stories and reports from the Middle
East, western and eastern Europe as well as Africa over the past two
decades. He has won awards for his reporting on human-rights issues,
and is the founder of human rights organization A Demand For Action
(ADFA) which advocates for persecuted minorities in Iraq, Syria,Turkey
and elsewhere in the Middle East.Nuri Kino is the eldest of four
children of an Assyrian family that originates from the village of
Kfar-Shomac, south of the City of Midyat, in a region known as Tur
Abdin. His parents moved to Germany as guest workers when he was four;
in 1974, when he was eight, they visited his grandparents in Sweden
and decided to stay because there were more jobs. He was kidnapped
twice as a child. In 1985 he became one of Sweden's first male medical
recorders. He has also run a restaurant; in 1994 he was chosen as
Stockholm's most popular restaurant owner.In 1998, he graduated from
the Poppius School of Journalism in Stockholm. The following year he
was in Istanbul when the Marmara earthquake occurred. He was
interviewed by international news agencies and wrote a widely cited
report on the collapse of buildings that had been known to be weak;
this was the real start of his career as a journalist. He has since
worked as a freelance investigative journalist for Dagens Nyheter,
Expressen, Aftonbladet and Metro. In 2002 he started freelancing for
the Swedish radio station Sveriges Radio. His reporting has been
focused on human rights, immigration and refugee issues, and he has
worked for the media abroad in countries such as Turkey, Denmark,
Norway, Finland, the U.S., and the Netherlands (reporting for the BBC
and on the Dutch program Dit is de Dag).
Swedish-Assyrian award-winning investigative journalist, documentary
filmmaker, author and human rights expert. He is the author of several
nonfiction books, and hundreds of stories and reports from the Middle
East, western and eastern Europe as well as Africa over the past two
decades. He has won awards for his reporting on human-rights issues,
and is the founder of human rights organization A Demand For Action
(ADFA) which advocates for persecuted minorities in Iraq, Syria,Turkey
and elsewhere in the Middle East.Nuri Kino is the eldest of four
children of an Assyrian family that originates from the village of
Kfar-Shomac, south of the City of Midyat, in a region known as Tur
Abdin. His parents moved to Germany as guest workers when he was four;
in 1974, when he was eight, they visited his grandparents in Sweden
and decided to stay because there were more jobs. He was kidnapped
twice as a child. In 1985 he became one of Sweden's first male medical
recorders. He has also run a restaurant; in 1994 he was chosen as
Stockholm's most popular restaurant owner.In 1998, he graduated from
the Poppius School of Journalism in Stockholm. The following year he
was in Istanbul when the Marmara earthquake occurred. He was
interviewed by international news agencies and wrote a widely cited
report on the collapse of buildings that had been known to be weak;
this was the real start of his career as a journalist. He has since
worked as a freelance investigative journalist for Dagens Nyheter,
Expressen, Aftonbladet and Metro. In 2002 he started freelancing for
the Swedish radio station Sveriges Radio. His reporting has been
focused on human rights, immigration and refugee issues, and he has
worked for the media abroad in countries such as Turkey, Denmark,
Norway, Finland, the U.S., and the Netherlands (reporting for the BBC
and on the Dutch program Dit is de Dag).
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