Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Author: Hugh Pope
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After years of hesitation, in September 2019 we finally started letting out our mountain escape in Olympos, Turkey. What were we waiting for? It’s so nice to know it is being enjoyed, and when I saw our first guest’s feedback on AirBNB I was as happy as when I got my first book review! Five…
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Happy New Year! I’m delighted to share an intriguing and often funny memoir of mid-20th century life, ‘Amateur’, written by my late father Maurice Pope. Just follow this link to a downloadable PDF: https://bitly.com/AmateurByMWMPope My father died in August 2019, and you can see notes on his memorial here. ‘Amateur’ spans pre-war and World War…
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The journey from the best to the worst of days in recent Turkish geopolitics was partly determined by a deteriorating diplomatic context. In this keynote speech for the Dutch Peace Research Foundation’s annual prizes for best new MA theses on peace, I look back on the highs and lows of two decades of change.
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How the weeks after the 15 July coup attempt felt like in the rural hinterland of a major Turkish province.
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How Brussels is having to get used to conflict as Europe and Middle East seem to be overlap more and more.
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How to survive attending Davos without a participants’ badge – and what this summit of the global one per cents really feels like.
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An appreciation of Istanbul’s ad hoc, chaotic pleasures, written as I leave the city after 28 years.
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A belated posting of a talk that I did in Istanbul in May, trying to explain in a TED Talks lookalike why after 28 years in Turkey I felt that somehow the country will likely always do better – and more slowly – than its Middle Eastern neighbours. Turkish Review also published a cleaned-up text…
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“The Turk Does Not Exist” – for sure, I was set a provocative assertion to address in my speech at Amsterdam’s De Balie cultural centre. But in fact there are lots of ways to answer that question, given the dozens of layers of Turkic cultures, 1,500 years of history, and an ethno-linguistic geography that literally girdles the globe.…
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A review of Jessica JJ Lutz’s book De Nederlandse Bruid (De Geus, 2014) and endorsements of ‘The Bride from Holland’ by Joris Luyendijk, Bram Vermeulen, Stine Jensen, Ebru Umar and Fidan Ekiz.
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