Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Author: Hugh Pope
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Thoughts and pictures from Turkey’s historic scenes of cheerful civil society self-assertion in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on the weekend of 8 June 2013
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Images and impressions of the Istanbul protests one week after the outbreak of unrest in Taksim Square’s Gezi Park.
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My photo album from the 1 June 2013 evening that Turkish demonstrators overwhelmed the police and occupied Taksim Square
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My house in Istanbul is on one of the main arteries leading to Gezi Park and Taksim Square, giving a ringside seat to the extraordinary wave of protests gripping the city — and plentiful doses of tear gas too.
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Turkey’s new anti-alcohol campaign seems to demonstrate the ruling Justice and Development Party’s inner Islamic agenda – or is it just clamping down on licences or part of a Byzantine political intrigue?
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My review of Jack Scott’s book on life as half of a rare, overtly gay couple in Turkey – and how different that is from the covert but accepted homosexual mainstream.
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A short review praising Rendez-vous avec al-Qaida in Le Monde Diplomatique’s February 2013 edition, and its translation into English.
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The one thing I couldn’t persuade the publishers of Dining with al-Qaeda to change as we edited the text was their leading phrase in the jacket-sleeve blurb, which referred to the author as “Following in the footsteps of Sir Richard Burton and Lawrence of Arabia …” In January, for the magazine The Majalla, I finally…
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The French edition of Dining with al-Qaida is now out, available from bookshops, amazon.fr (here) or direct from the publisher, Presses de l’Université Laval! I guess I have to resign myself once again to the book being symbolised as a lonely man in Arabian costume, perched on a mountain ridge, and contemplating the naked but…
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Outside my window overlooking Istanbul’s main pedestrian Istiklal St. rowdy recent demonstrations have given vocal testimony to the fragmentation of Turkey’s self-image between the West and the Middle East: secularists condemning America, Islamists condemning Russia, others decrying Syria, Israel, Kurdish insurgents, the ruling government in Ankara (and lots more besides, see right). At the same…
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