Author: Hugh Pope
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I first met Morton Abramowitz as a young reporter when I went to interview him as ambassador to Turkey in the early 1990s, little realizing that I would join the organization that he subsequently co-founded — International Crisis Group. Abramowitz has had a hand in almost everything impacting Turkey and the Middle East in recent…
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I first met Tony Horwitz when he was a Wall Street Journal correspondent, determined to see every inch of every border with Iraq to test a theory about sanctions against that country during the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. We spent a week bumping up and down mountain roads along the Iraq-Turkey border together, and…
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I’ve long been a fan of Azadeh Moaveni‘s writing, and especially enjoyed her book Lipstick Jihad, which tells about her Iranian-American childhood and her attempts to return to Iran. So I was really happy that she agreed to endorse Dining with al-Qaeda: “Hugh Pope’s deftly told account of 30 years in the Middle East recounts…
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The third section from my book on the Turks and the Turkic world that relates my experiences with and conditinos of the Uygurs in the northwestern Chinese province of Xinjiang. Hugh Pope, SONS OF THE CONQUERORS: The Rise of the Turkic World, pp. 13-19, 41-171 (New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2005) 10. THE ANT AND THE…
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Second posting of Uygur-related extracts from Hugh Pope, SONS OF THE CONQUERORS: The Rise of the Turkic World, pp. 13-19, 41-171 (New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2005) 9. THE GHOST OF ISA BEG KNIGHT-ERRANT OF TURKESTAN I was never carried away by the valuable Chinese gifts of gold, silver, silk and sweet words. I did not…
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The first of four Uygur-related extracts from my book on the Turks and the Turkic world. Hugh Pope, SONS OF THE CONQUERORS: The Rise of the Turkic World, pp. 13-19 PROLOGUE God Most High caused the Sun of Fortune to rise in the Zodiac of the Turks; he called them ‘Turk’ and made them Kings…
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