Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turkish F-104G Starfighters criss-crossed the azure Cyprus sky, and ships of the Turkish navy sailed offshore, their guns questing the coast for targets. While mobs in Istanbul and Ankara called for war with Greece and an invasion of Cyprus, Turkish troops streamed toward embarkation ports near Cyprus or ferried westward across the Bosporus to take up positions along the Greek border. In response, long columns of olive-drab Greek tanks clattered across the Thracian plain to confront the Turks. Thus last week Turkey and Greece, uneasy allies in NATO, came to the very brink of war over...
...catalogue includes four readable introductions by scholars on "The Art of Anatolia Until 1200 B.C.," "Early Iron Age, Classical and Roman Empire," "The Byzantine Period," and "The Islamic." A lecture series during December includes discussions of rugs and textiles, architecture, and painting. Topkapi, a film set in an Istanbul palace-museum, will be shown over the next two weekends. Five concerts of native Turkish music will be performed on traditional instruments during December, and recorded tours are available...
Also elected were Joseph A. Kay of Dudley and Arlington; Alexander Keyssar of Leverett and Maplewood, N.J.; Harry R. Lewis of Quincy and Wellesley Hills; Marc E. Mann of Adams and Cleveland, Miss.; Marsel Mesulam of Eliot and Istanbul, Turkey; Henry R. Norr of Adams and Newton; and Frederick P. Schaffer of Dunster and Scarsdale...
...Rome. Accompanied by four of his Metropolitans, Athenagoras I, the spiritual primate of Orthodoxy, arrived by jet for the third of his historic, symbolic encounters with Pope Paul VI. The three-day visit was, in a sense, a return engagement, inspired by the Pope's trip to Istanbul last July...
While a grad student, he spent a year teaching English at Robert College in Istanbul. He often spoke of his year as an English teacher, and in 1956, while on a trip to Athens, he attended a reunion staged by some of those former students...