Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Tag: Turkey
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Reflections of a deliberative democrat on debating the Ottoman Empire in the Oxford Union, 20 November 2025
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How making the ascent of Mount Olympos on the southern Turkish coast redoubled my appreciation of the raw beauty of a region where my wife and I built a house twenty years ago.
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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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I’d like to make a bet that Türkiye – the official name for Turkey since 2021 – is about to make a comeback after years of disastrous economic policies, fear-mongering leadership and regional turmoil. Being invited this week by the Bruegel think-tank in Brussels for a discussion with Turkish Treasury & Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek…
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How a new Kurdistan Mental Health Project aims to help Iraqi Kurds overcome the traumatic scars of decades of violent conflict.
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A new, updated, UK paperback edition of Hugh Pope’s 2010 book ‘Dining with al-Qaeda: Making Sense of the Middle East’ was published in September 2020.
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In the best tradition of books written by foreign correspondents, Hannah Lucinda Smith offers a journey in brave and well-informed company. Whether explaining the grip of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Turkey, dodging Islamists in northern Syria or shining light into the backrooms of London’s relationship with Ankara, she’s a companion who writes frankly and…
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How the weeks after the 15 July coup attempt felt like in the rural hinterland of a major Turkish province.
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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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How to survive attending Davos without a participants’ badge – and what this summit of the global one per cents really feels like.
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