Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Tag: Turkey
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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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“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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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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Some travelogue and pictures illustrating how far I think the Kurds have come in the past three decades since I first started visiting their homelands in Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey.
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Two French journalists set out on the trail of the massacres and deportations of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, and return with a book of extraordinary discoveries of Armenian survival in modern Turkey and a belief that today’s Turkish denial of an Armenian genocide is an extension of the early era’s crime.
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The June 2013 unrest in Istanbul’s Taksim Square has some extraordinary links with the 1909 events in the same place – Islamist vs. Turkish nationalist, damaged trees and an injured American journalist.
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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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Turkey’s new anti-alcohol campaign seems to demonstrate the ruling Justice and Development Party’s inner Islamic agenda – or is it just clamping down on licences or part of a Byzantine political intrigue?
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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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