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Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey Paperback – December 6, 2011

by Hugh Pope (Author), Nicola Pope (Author)
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    Abrams Press
  4. Publication date
    December 6, 2011
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    6.05 x 0.86 x 9.05 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1590206908
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    978-1590206904
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Abrams Press; 1st edition (December 6, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590206908
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590206904
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.05 x 0.86 x 9.05 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

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    Hugh Pope is a writer and advocate for sortition-based democracy, most recently co-editing his late father Maurice Pope’s The Keys to Democracy: Sortition as a New Model for Citizen Power (Imprint Academic, 2023).

    Between 2007-22 he worked in Istanbul and then Brussels for International Crisis Group, the conflict-prevention organization. Pope was previously a foreign correspondent for 25 years, most recently spending a decade as a Turkey, Middle East and Central Asia Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

    Mr. Pope co-authored Turkey Unveiled: a History of Modern Turkey (London 1997, a New York Times "notable book"). He also wrote Sons of the Conquerors: the Rise of the Turkic world (New York 2005, an Economist magazine "book of the year") and Dining with al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East (New York 2010; global paperback 2020; “terrific”, according to The Guardian). He blogs on hughpope.com and @Hugh_Pope.

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Steven Kuhlke
5.0 out of 5 stars If you want a very easy read, and a substantive book on the history ...
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2016
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This books rocks! If you want a very easy read, and a substantive book on the history of the political context of modern Turkey and the surrounding region, this is it. Good narrative flow; makes you want to keep reading.
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Ricardo Gonzalez
4.0 out of 5 stars Not broad enough
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2013
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The authors spend a lot of time explaining in A LOT of detail the political happenings at the expense of other topics.
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sheepoo
2.0 out of 5 stars A book full of Editorial mistakes!
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2017
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There are so many errors in the paperback edition of this book that I simply stopped taking stock of them!
Editorial mistakes apart (and there are plenty of those. See below for an initial list) there are factual mistakes which leaves the reader wondering what to believe and what not to believe. As an "icing on the cake" there are reviews given on the back cover which depicts as if it is one of the best books on Turkish history. One is left wondering how much was paid to the reviewers to write those accolades when no one in their true professional honesty can ignore the errors in this work.

So here is a list of errors which I noted before I gave up (from the 2011 Paperback Edition):

Page 127, paragraph 1, the author mentions that the U-2 plane, flown by Gary Powers in 1962, took off from Incirlik Airbase in Turkey. In fact, Gary Powers took off from Badaber Airbase in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Page 112, last paragraph: "... Cyprus had become a British crown colony in 1954 In 1954, the Greek government..." [missing full stop]
Page 134, fourth paragraph: "Aware as always of .their self-appointed role..." [Extra full stop]
Page 135, second paragraph: "Arid in the East" [Should be "And in the East"]
Page 144, line 3: "Prime Minister Demirel had decided to upset the army's usual system, of promotion..." [extra comma]
Page 149, second paragraph: "...marked die beginning..." [Should be "..marked the beginning..."]
Page 149, third paragraph: "...explaining to the work..." [Should be "...explaining to the world..."]
Page 162, fourth paragraph: "... Ozal simply flew to the. United States." [ extra fullstop]
Page 175, first paragraph: "In the twenty four years between 1954 and 1980..." [ There are 26 years between 1954 and 1980, not 24]
Page 183, third paragraph: "... assured that Turkey was given a good seat as an observer EU defense mechanisms, to take more account of Turkey's importance..." [No idea what kind of English is this!!!]
Page 184, second paragraph: "...the Middle Eastern baroque furniture in the drawing room. favored by older and wealthier Turks,..." [extra full stop in the middle of the sentence]
Page 185, last line: "...and whose culture dominated, the late Ottoman and early republican elites." [extra comma in the middle of the sentence]
Page 189, third paragraph: "...after Ozal's initial application, there was long little real Turkish pressure to open negotiations on the point..." [ Long little real pressure?]
Page 208, second paragraph: " this was followed in late 1990 by the devastating effects on Turkish patterns of trade of the Gulf War." [Not exactly sure what the author is trying to say here in this sentence. It is simply bad English composition]
Page 215, third paragraph: "... had no long term plan other than its tactical objective active in Kuwait ." [Once again poor English composition]
 
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Corey Gonzales
5.0 out of 5 stars Balance from intriguing to dry
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2019
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Pope goes into great detail to explain the background to important events in Turkey. Great read, with some dry areas.
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Ali Caglar Akgungor
1.0 out of 5 stars Journalistic and Biased
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2006
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Don't think this book is completely useless. But it's not a serious resource about Turkey. If you already know a lot about this country (I mean if you already read for exemple Kalaycioglu's Turkish Dynamics or at least Zürcher's History of Turkey) Popes' book may be interesting in order to understand how foreigners see Turkey, Turkish people and turkish politics.
However, I saw much better exemples of this kind of "journalistic account" books such as the "The Turks" by David Hotham (published 40 years ago), or the recent Crescent and Star by Kinzer. I think Mango's The Turks Today is the best, altough Mango prefer to not deal with some "sensitive" subjects.

Popes' book is heavily biased, especially in some parts. Their style remembers me some orientalist authors who were against the idea of modernization of the east. Still, some people are disapointed by discovering a modernizing country in Turkey, instead of an oriental one, where people ride camels while girls are doing belly-dancing. So I call this type of text "neo-orientalistic".

Another point is, just as it is with some other foreign journalists working in Turkey (especially french), they still think in terms (and paradigms) of the country from where they are; and they are tended to suggest "solutions" for everything. Their country is the correct one, and others are "deviations". When reading Turkey Unveiled, you can see that the authors can't stop seeing things that way. So they just misundertand some important facts and make very subjective comments. That's what french call "donneur de leçon" attitude ("lesson-giver").

Another very important point: yes there is a bibliography at the end but almost no references inside !!! We can't understand if what they wrote is from a real source or just a rumor.

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Dear Amazon Users,

I decided to write a second "review" in order to get your attention to the following facts:

1) Most of the positive reviews like "...I didn't read the book yet but I will definitely buy it" are ANONYMOUS !!!

2) A person has 2 separate positive reviews, one on this page, the other at the page two (click "next" to see)

I believe this 2 and most of the other (+) reviews are just advertisement. I suspect that the person who managed wrote 2 reviews is probably a friend of the authors.

You can think and say what you want about Turkey and Turks, but please try to read serious authors : (in English) Feroz Ahmad, Eric Zürcher, Ersin Kalaycioglu, Caglar Keyder, Tim Jacoby, William Hale (in French) Paul Dumont, François Georgeon, Stephanos Yerasimos, Jean Paul Burdy, Semih Vaner, Jean Paul Roux...

Yes some are turkish but non of these are "Turkish-lovers" and they don't hide their critics about a lot of issues including armenian massacres, cyprus, kurdish question, human rigths and democratization issues...

Read and decide by yourself !

Thanks.

----------------------- December 2010 Update-------------------------------------------------

4 years after my first comment, I'm still defending the same point of view about this book. I regret to have given more than 25 USD to it; and I'm asking the same question again: WHY ALL THE POSITIVE COMMENTS HAVE BEEN SIGNED BY " A CUSTOMER" (anonymous user) ??? WHY THOSE WHO SEEM TO BE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH THIS MASTERPIECE DO NOT WRITE THEIR NAMES DOWN???

CAVEAT EMPTOR !
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barbara waldner
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read book of current Turkey
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2014
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Excellent book on many years of Turkey. I would recommend it to anyone interested in a history of Turkey and present Turkey
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