 He has worked in and around Turkey and the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union for the past 15 years.During that period he has become known mainly as a crisis correspondent due to coverage of the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Karabakh, the war of secession in Abkhazia from Georgia and the separatist conflict in Chechnya.His documentary for Global Vision's "Rights and Wrongs" program was a finalist in the Rory Peck Award for excellence in television journalism in 1996.