Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Category: Sons of the Conquerors
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A farewell bow to my 43 years of reporting notebooks.
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Review of and personal reflections about Tim Hannigan’s wonderful book ‘The Travel Writing Tribe’.
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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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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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Thrilled to see top-of-the-bill ranking for my last book, Sons of the Conquerors: the Rise of the Turkic World ! New York’s Foreign Affairs magazine on 23 September 2009 listed the book’s account of my Central Asian and other Turkic journeys first among the 20 titles judged essential for ‘What to Read on Turkish Politics’…
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To talk to Uygur leader Rebiya Kadeer has been a personal ambition ever since I visited China’s Xinjiang Province in 1999. It was a meeting with the first Uygur leader, the late Isa Alptekin, that inspired my travels through two dozen countries seeking to understand the essence of Turkishness in my 2005 book, Sons of…
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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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