Hugh Pope

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.