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...start in parties that were banned in the 1990s for flirting with political Islam. And secularists could not abide the idea that, as Turkey's First Lady, Gul's wife Hayrunnisa would be wearing the traditional Muslim head scarf while entertaining foreign dignitaries in Ankara's Cankaya Palace...
...comfortably modern official residence in the Cankaya hills, high above Ankara, the Prime Minister has a wife and three young children, two boys and a girl. He has been married 20 years...
...this fine forenoon the Ambassador and his lean, genteel, partly French wife had started on their morning constitutional from their stucco house down through the orchards of Cankaya Hill to the Embassy. They had surveyed the distant snowcapped mountains and had just passed the pale green apartment house occupied by British Counselor Geoffrey Thompson. Then, 50 feet away, the bomb went...
Each morning at 8 he leaves his house in Cankaya, an Ankara suburb, after being blessed by his wife and mother, and walks two miles to his office, striding so fast that his aide-de-camp has to scamper to keep up. Before lunch the President goes for an hour's gallop through Kamâl Atatürk's farm zoo at Ciftlik. He loves horse racing as well as riding, becomes boyishly animated at meetings. In the evening his recreation is quieter: he likes to have three musicians come to his house and play quartets with...
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