Chris Morris

Chris Morris (born 1964) is a British broadcast journalist who regularly contributes to BBC News, Today , BBC Reality Check and From Our Own Correspondent, and is the author of the 2005 Granta publication The New Turkey. Biography Morris joined the BBC World Service in 1988 and was BBC Sri Lanka Correspondent from 1990–92 based in Colombo covering the Sri Lankan civil war and other South Asian stories including the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and the rise of Hindu nationalism. He was BBC State Department Correspondent from 1994–97 based in Washington, D.C. covering crises in Haiti and North Korea, and travelling around the world with the US Secretary of State. He also reported on the Dayton Agreement and the 1996 United States presidential election. He was BBC Turkey Correspondent from 1997–2001 based first in Ankara and later opening the BBC's new bureau in Istanbul covering the 1999 İzmit earthquake and the arrest and trial of the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan.