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I've enjoyed Hugh
Pope's reporting in The Wall
Street Journal for years, and
I thoroughly enjoyed—and learned
a lot from—his book Turkey
Unveiled.
His new book, SONS OF
THE CONQUERORS: The Rise of the
Turkic World, looks
far beyond the modern Turkish
Republic and its Ottoman past.
Turkish history and culture is a lot
deeper than the empire and the republic,
and this depth is familiar to, and
treasured by, every modern Turk. It
is integral to their view of the world.
As the Turkic peoples—140
million of them—become
more important in world politics, commerce
and culture, it's important to know
where they're coming from.
Turks proudly claim to have been the masters
of a dozen important states and empires in
Europe and Asia, including the Mogul empire
in India, the Safavids of
Iran, and the Mamelukes of
Egypt. Today they are the majority
in the Turkish Republic, Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, with
significant minorities of Turkic
peoples in many other countries,
including Iran, Iraq and China.
Anyone interested in Turks and Turkey
will want to read Sons
of the Conquerors. In
fact, we should all read just
about anything Hugh Pope writes on
Turkey. I do.
Published in New York by Overlook
Press and in London by Duckworth. Price:
$35.00 hardcover. ISBN: 1-58567-641-1.1
map and 34 b&w photos, 6x9 trim
size, 432 pages. Distributed by Viking/Penguin.
Order
from Amazon.co.uk (UK)
Order
from Amazon.com (US)
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