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David Barchard |
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David Barchard currently lectures at Bilkent University, Ankara.
He was Financial Times correspondent in Turkey during the 1980s and has travelled widely in Turkey.
A former member of the Council of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara and the UK Turkish Area Study Group,
he is also an authority on the Byzantine rock monasteries of Cappadocia and in 1995 helped rediscover the late Roman Village of Sykeon near Beypazari in Ankara province.
He is currently writing a set of studies of Turkish-European relations over the last two hundred years, including the Eastern Question and Turcophobia, and has lectured widely on Turkish politics and economics as well as late Ottoman history.
He is the author of "Asil Nadir and the Rise and Fall of Polly Peck", three monographs on Turkish-European relations in the late twentieth century, and a so far unpublished study of the last century of Cretan history and the Cretan Muslims under Ottoman rule.
Here is a selection of his recent contributions to Cornucopia
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REPUTATIONS David Barchard's remarkable nineteenth-century heroes and anti heroes include: |
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Portrait by James Jaques Tissot courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
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BFG: BIG FRIENDLY GIANT
By David Barchard
Cornucopia Issue 24
£8/US$16
Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
At six foot four and 20 stone, Frederick Gustavus Burnaby was said to be the strongest man in Britain. The exploits of this maverick cavalry officer, explorer and erstwhile politician were the stuff of Victorian schoolboy fantasy. His memoirs of his travels in Turkey were best-sellers in their day and have seldom been out of print since. The conversations he enjoyed en route still have a freshness today that no successor has ever surpassed.
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David Barchard reviews 'Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilisation and Barbarism'
by Neal Ascherson
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THE GOOD FIGHT
By David Barchard
Cornucopia Issue 26
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Sir Herbert Chermside 1850-1929
Sir Herbert Chermside, modest to the last, wrote no self-aggrandising memoirs of three decades' service in the Ottoman Empire. However, this great Victorian soldier, admired by his contemporaries as a remarkable diplomat and a committed peacemaker, merits a place in the history books.
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Also in Issue 26:
Antony Wynn reviews Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran:
Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia (1829) by Laurence Kelly
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Illustrations courtesy of the author
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PARALLEL LIVES
By David Barchard
Cornucopia Issue 27
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Stratford Canning and Mahmut II
Both were ambitious men with a penchant for poetry who suffered extremes of fortune. David Barchard charts the ties between two dominant figures in nineteenth-century Turkey, the British ambassador Stratford Canning and the Ottoman sultan Mahmut II
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Also in Issue 27 Beaufort's Hunt
Admiral Beaufort's survey of the coast of Turkey. His daughter Emily married Percy Strangford, see below. |
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The National Portrait Gallery, London
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ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY
By David Barchard
Cornucopia Issue 29
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The Strangfords
They were a family of Turcophiles with more brains than wealth or political judgement.
David Barchard chronicles the lives of the remarkable Strangfords
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Also in Issue 29 The Quiet Revolutionary
Namik Kemal, founder of the movement which lead to the Young Turks
by Osman Streater
David Barchard reviews The Alevis of Turkey: The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition
by David Shankland |
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Image courtesy of Mustafa Naili Pasha's descendants Nilufer, Tayyibe and Mustafa Gulek.
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THE PRINCELY PASHA OF CRETE
By David Barchard
Cornucopia Issue 30
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Giritli Mustafa Naili Pasha
Cretan ballads portray Giritli Mustafa Naili Pasha as a monster who vowed to ‘eat up his enemies like an anchovy salad'. Even today propagandists revel in his reputation for cruelty.
In a controversial rereading of history based on what his contemporaries were actually writing, David Barchard debunks the myth and tells the extraordinary story of an Albanian boy soldier who became not only one of the richest men in the Ottoman Empire, but one that ruled Crete with an even-handedness many foreigners admired.
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Also in Issue 30: A Lady of Letters
A review by David Barchard of elibron.com's reprint of the letters of Emelia Hornby in Constantinople during the Crimean War.
"There are certain books one falls in love with at first reading. This, for me, is one of them." |
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From The Photographers of Constantinople, by Bahattin Oztuncay
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THE DOORMAN'S SON WHO SAVED THE EMPIRE
By David Barchard
Cornucopia Issue 31
£16/US$32
A'ali Pasha
Born into penury, he rose to be revered across Europe. Yet the Ottoman Empire's youngest ever grand vizier is all but forgotten at home.
David Barchard charts the dramatic career of the master strategist A'ali Pasha
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Also in Issue 31: A Keen Eye for Detail
David Barchard reviews 'Sketches of Turkey in 1831 & 1832'
By James Ellsworth de Kay
Elibron Classics
www.elibron.com |
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Sailing into troubled waters: Ismail Kemal (with white beard) in 1912, the year he founded Albania.
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THE MAN WHO MADE ALBANIA
By David Barchard
Cornucopia Issue 34
£28/US$56
Ismail Kemal (1844-1919)
Continuing his series on the villains and heroes of the Ottoman Empire in its final years, David Barchard looks back over the roller-coaster career of Ismail Kemal.
'To become the founder of a nation in modern Europe might seem the pinnacle of a statesman’s ambitions. But when Ismail Kemal Bey stepped onto a balcony in the Adriatic town of Valona (now called Vlorë) in November 1912 to proclaim his native Albania an independent country, he must have reflected wryly on how differently history might have worked out, both for the Ottoman Empire and in his own life.'
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Also in Issue 34 David Barchard reviews
'Jem Sultan: The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe'
by John Freely |
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SETTING THE WORLD TO RIGHTS
By David Barchard
Cornucopia Issue 35
£28/US$56
The Hatt-i Humayun and the Congress of Paris
A nineteen-gun salute resounded over the wintery waters of the Sea of Marmara on Tuesday February 19, 1856, proclaiming what was to prove the highest point in the Ottoman Empire’s fortunes in the nineteenth century. The salute marked the departure of A’ali Pasha, the forty-one-year-old grand vizier, for Marseille aboard the French frigate Sané. From there he would go to Paris where, as Turkey’s plenipotentiary, he was to attend the Congress of Paris and negotiate a settlement on Turkey’s behalf in the aftermath of the Crimean War...
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Also see Cornucopia Issue 33 for David Barchard's review of The Crimean War by Clive Ponting |
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Omer M Koc Collection
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THE PATRIOT
By David Barchard
Cornucopia Issue 38
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The life and times of Ahmed Vefik Pasha
As Bursa lay in ruins after the earthquake of 1855, the man the Sultan sent to rescue the city was Ahmed Vefik Pasha.
A brilliant man of letters, champion of Ottoman causes and very undiplomatic diplomat, he was to leave an indelible mark on Turkish Culture.
'Ahmed Vefik Pasha would roar with laughter at 'The Pickwick Papers', which, like many a nineteenth-century Englishman, he came to know largely by heart.
'He is seen as a key figure in the emergence of modern Turkish culture... If he needs a monument other than his library, it is surely the early Ottoman monuments of Bursa'
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Books reviewed by David Barchard in Issue 38: 'Cambridge History of Turkey. Volume 3: The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603 1839'. Ed. Suraiya N Faroqhi
and Sina Aksin's remarkable history 'Turkey: From Empire to Revolutionary Republic' |
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PROFILES |
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AMBASSADOR
EXTRAORDINARY
By David Barchard
Cornucopia Issue 16
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Zeki Kuneralp
Zeki Kuneralp was raised far from home on a farm in the Swiss Alps.
He returned to become one of the century's most venerated diplomats. David Barchard pays tribute.
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Photograph by Charles Hopkinson
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THE BROTHERS MANGO
By David Barchard
Cornucopia Issue 19
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Cyril Mango and Andrew Mango
Cyril Mango has long been an authority on Byzantium. Now Andrew Mango has published an important biography of Ataturk. Yet the brothers were brought up in Istanbul between the wars in a pool of European culture barely touched by Turkish politics.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK REVIEWS by David Barchard (click covers for reviews) |
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Diplomat in a Changing World: Sir Bernard Burrows
Issue 25
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Life's Episodes
by Godfrey Goodwin
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The Rise of Oriental Travel
by Gerald Maclean
Issue 34 |
Twice a Stranger
by Bruce Clark
Issue 36 |
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