Victor Kotsev

Istanbul, Turkey

Professional Experience

Writing and reporting from Istanbul, the Middle East and the Balkans. Clients include USA Today, The Atlantic, Business Week, Asia Times Online, the Harvard International Review, and others.

Total Media Industry Experience

5 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

USA Today (10+), The Atlantic (1-2), Asia Times Online (10+)

Foreign Language Skills

English, Bulgarian (native level), German (advanced), Arabic, Russian, Serbo-Croatian (intermediate), French, Hebrew (basic)

Unions

International Organization of Journalists

Computer Skills

Windows, Linux, Word, HTML

Work Permits & Visas

Turkey, Bulgaria

References

On request

Associations

ARA Network

General

Istanbul viewed as safe, but has its dangers

(USA Today 1/27/2013)

The city where an American woman went missing in Turkey has a relatively low rate of street crime, according to the U.S. State Department.

Peace Two Ways

(SADA--The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 5/30/2013)

Intra-Palestinian reconciliation takes a back seat to the Israeli-Palestinian Peace process.

Can a No-Name U.S. Company Save Bulgaria's Struggling Nuclear Plant?

(The Atlantic 1/29/2013)

It doesn't help that the little-known firm is probably a front -- for the Kremlin.

Bulgaria Gets Real about Its Economy

(Business Week 10/6/2009)

Until the parliamentary elections in July, the Bulgarian government appeared to be in denial about the approaching economic crisis. Days after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and just as financial panic had paralyzed the world, former (Socialist) Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev gave an interview in