Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Category: Musings
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Some travelogue and pictures illustrating how far I think the Kurds have come in the past three decades since I first started visiting their homelands in Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey.
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A day out in Ankara with Dutch anthropologist-turned-media-pundit Joris Luyendijk, talking about his book Hello Everybody! and the state of media coverage of the Middle East
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The June 2013 unrest in Istanbul’s Taksim Square has some extraordinary links with the 1909 events in the same place – Islamist vs. Turkish nationalist, damaged trees and an injured American journalist.
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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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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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Benoit Léger, qui traduit Rendez-vous avec al-Qaeda (Dining with al-Qaeda) en français, m’a envoyé cet extrait de son travail en cours. Benoit a déjà traduit de manière spectaculaire mon livre Fils de conquérants : Le monde türk et son essor qui a apparu l’an dernier (cliquez ici pour le voir sur amazon.fr, ou ici pour…
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