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Can Merey was born in 1972 in Frankfurt/Main to a Turkish father and a German mother. He spent some of his school years in Teheran, Singapore and Cairo. Having studied social work, he first worked in this field in Aachen, then went to Istanbul to work as freelance journalist. After that, he applied for a traineeship at dpa (German Press Agency). For dpa he worked in Istanbul and in Berlin in the Germany section and also as correspondent on environment and consumers’ protection issues. Since 2003 Can Merey is South East Asia correspondent for dpa in New Delhi and has travelled numerous times to Afghanistan on research assignments.
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