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Uygurs in China I
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...
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Uygurs in China II
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...
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Uygurs in China III
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...
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News from Tartary
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...
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Top of the Bill in ‘Foreign Affairs’
Thrilled to see top-of-the-bill ranking for my last book, Sons of the Conquerors: the Rise of the Turkic World ! New York’s Foreign Affairs magazine on 23 September 2009 listed the book’s account of my...
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La Syrie de la famille Assad dans ‘Rendez-vous avec al-Qaeda’
Benoit Léger Benoit Léger, qui traduit Rendez-vous avec al-Qaeda (Dining with al-Qaeda) en français, m’a envoyé cet extrait de son travail en cours. Benoit a déjà traduit de manière spectaculaire mon...
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The Turk Does Exist – and With a Many-Faceted Identity Too
“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,...
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In Search of the Travel Writer
“You really must write a book about it!” Whenever I visited my parent’s home in England while living and reporting in the Middle East, I would hear variations on this well-meaning suggestion. It was...
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