"20/07/2005SONS OF THE CONQUERORS: The Rise Of The Turkic World
Asharq Al-Awsat Book Review- By Amir Taheri
With the increasingly globalised international system heading towards what looks like the elimination of nation-states are we heading for a new world which resembles the primeval soup in which nations could not be told apart?
This is the question behind Hugh Pope's new book which is about the identity debate in almost a dozen countries where what he describes as 'the Turkic people' form either a majority or a substantial minority. His answer is that globalisation, while effacing political and administrative frontiers among nations may paradoxically encourage a sense of cultural identification. And this, he further argues, is especially the case among the Turkic peoples.
But let us start by finding out what makes a people 'Turkic'."
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