Hugh Pope

Author, Reporter, Editor

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Writer of books on Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia. Formerly Director of Communications & Outreach and Turkey/Cyprus Project Director for International Crisis Group. Ex-Turkey & Middle East staff correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

Tag: Constantinople

Sherlock Holmes’ adventure by the Bosphorus

January 27, 2025

Review by Hugh Pope of Andrew Finkel’s excellent debut novel The Adventure of the Second Wife: The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and the Ottoman Sultan.
A Farewell to Istanbul

January 1, 2016

An appreciation of Istanbul’s ad hoc, chaotic pleasures, written as I leave the city after 28 years.

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Tag: Constantinople

Sherlock Holmes’ adventure by the Bosphorus

A Farewell to Istanbul