Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Tag: Istanbul
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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.
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How Brussels is having to get used to conflict as Europe and Middle East seem to be overlap more and more.
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An appreciation of Istanbul’s ad hoc, chaotic pleasures, written as I leave the city after 28 years.
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A review of Jessica JJ Lutz’s book De Nederlandse Bruid (De Geus, 2014) and endorsements of ‘The Bride from Holland’ by Joris Luyendijk, Bram Vermeulen, Stine Jensen, Ebru Umar and Fidan Ekiz.
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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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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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