Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Health in Turkey's late, deposed regime. Sickly and burdened with 72 years of age, Kirdar had dropped dead fortnight ago while testifying before the court trying ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and other leaders of the regime that Kirdar had once served. Present at the obsequies in Istanbul's Sisli mosque was a menacingly large crowd of 1,500 mourners, many genuinely bereaved but many others expressly come to show defiance of General Cemal Gursel's ruling military junta. To do so, they chose to consider Kirdar a martyr...
...mosques and hated Gursel for his insistence on keeping religious affairs strictly separate from those of the state. As Kirdar's coffin emerged from the mosque, the zealots seized it. Chanting a dirgelike Moslem prayer, they carried the coffin through the streets toward the cemetery. When Istanbul's military governor appeared, his car was pelted with stones. "Take back the freedom you gave us," the bearded men shrieked. "We don't want...
...archbishop's most symbolic encounter, before he moved on to Beiru and Istanbul, was with Roman Catholic Monsignor Alberto Gori, Roman Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem. Referring to his forthcoming meeting with the Pope, Dr Fisher told Monsignor Gori: "There are moments when I realize why divisions are transcended even while they exist." Replied the monsignor hopefully: "The ice has been broken...
...unknown hand." On the witness stand, the patriarch admitted that he had no specific knowledge to back up his charge; he had gotten his information second hand. But two hours before the riots broke out, said Athenagoras, he had received a phone call from the governor of Istanbul, now one of the defendants, informing him, "There may be some demonstrations over Cyprus. But don't worry...
Significant Trivia. Dr. Fisher will arrive in Rome about Dec. 1, after a ten-day trip that will include visits to Greek Orthodox Patriarch Benediktos in Jerusalem and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras in Istanbul. The Archbishop of Canterbury plans to stay at Rome's stately Villa della Camilluccia, residence of Britain's Minister to the Holy See. To avoid any awkward moments, the Pope is expected to receive the Archbishop standing, instead of with the customary seated extension of his ring to be kissed. Except for an interpreter, the two bishops will be alone. What they talk about...