Hugh Pope

Author, Reporter, Editor

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Writer of books on Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia. Formerly Director of Communications & Outreach and Turkey/Cyprus Project Director for International Crisis Group. Ex-Turkey & Middle East staff correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

Tag: First World War

  • In Memoriam Lt. C.M. Pope and Lt. R.T.B. Pope, Ypres

    In Memoriam Lt. C.M. Pope and Lt. R.T.B. Pope, Ypres

    Reflections on my discovery that two of my grandfather’s cousins died fighting near Ypres in Belgium, where I now live. My grandfather was injured in a separate battle nearby.

  • Beware the stated war aims of great states

    I love history books that cast light on the modern turmoil in the former Ottoman Empire and beyond. The trouble is I often get bogged down in the details, and the pile of unfinished, pencil-scored volumes has long been steadily rising by my bedside. Not so with historian Sean McMeekin’s new book The Russian Origins…