Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Category: The Uygur Predicament
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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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