[Discussion] Lecture on the Turkic World

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From: Inci Bowman <incia@attglobal.net>

Those of you who live in the Washington, DC area may be interested in the
following lecture sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates to be held at the
Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institution:
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The Rise of the Turkic World
Cosponsored with the American Turkish Council and the American Friends of Turkey

Fri., Nov. 18, 6:30 p.m.

The Turkic world today counts some 140 million people worldwide, from ancient
populations in Siberia and China, through six states across Eurasia, to new
immigrant communities in western Europe and America. Yet despite an
extraordinary past and strong signs of hope for the future, they remain some of
the least studied peoples in the world.

In a slide-illustrated lecture, journalist Hugh Pope provides a vivid picture of
modern-day Turks, descendants of the nomad armies who once conquered China and
the Byzantine Empire. He reassesses a history in which Islamic lands were ruled
by Turkic dynasties, before their ascendancy was broken by the rising power of
Europe, Russia, China, and the Ottomans, whose five-century-long empire
encompassed Turkey, the Balkans, and the Middle East.

Pope heads the Wall Street Journal news bureau in Istanbul. His book Sons of the
Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World (Overlook) is available for signing
after the program.

Tickets: General Admission $20, Resident Members $15, Senior Members $13.
Call: 202.357.3030
Online: www.ResidentAssociates.org


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