Hugh Pope is the deputy director of the International Crisis Group’s Europe and Central Asia Program, and the author of <em>Turkey Unveiled: a History of Modern Turkey</em>, <em>Sons of the Conquerors: the Rise of the Turkic World</em>, and <em>Dining with al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East</em>.

PKK–Ankara Talks Resume

[caption id="attachment_55237195" align="alignnone" width="620"] Supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party wave flags and hold up a…

Lawrence of Legend

[caption id="attachment_55237637" align="alignnone" width="620"] T.E. Lawrence (left), better known as Lawrence Of Arabia, with American broadcaster…

EU Romance Rekindled

[caption id="attachment_55238863" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkey's EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış poses in his Ankara office on February 18…

The Best-Laid Plans

[caption id="attachment_55241140" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A woman sits with her child inside a tent at a refugee camp near Diyarbakır,…

Keep Bridging the Gap

[caption id="attachment_55242444" align="alignnone" width="620"] A photo of the Bosporus river and Istanbul's Asian (Bottom) and European (Top)…

A Way out of the Labyrinth

[caption id="attachment_55245471" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz greets Irsen Kucuk, former prime minister of…

Ottoman Ghosts

[caption id="attachment_55245702" align="alignnone" width="618"] Sultan Abdul Hamid opening Turkish parliament, 10 December 1908. From drawing by H.W…

New Hope for Cyprus

[caption id="attachment_55248585" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Turkish Cypriot girl plays in a park near the UN buffer zone on referendum day in…

That’s Turkey for You

[inset_left]The Assassin from Apricot City: Reportage from TurkeyBy Witold SzabłowskiTranslated by Antonia Lloyd-JonesStork Press, 210 pagesLondon,…