Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a four-month respite that, coincidentally or not, followed the U.S. air attack on Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, Middle Eastern terrorists were on the rampage once again. Only hours after the bloody denouement in Karachi, masked Arab gunmen stalked into an Istanbul synagogue during the morning Sabbath service and, firing machine guns, murdered more than a score of Jewish worshipers...
...poor neighborhood not far from Istanbul's Galata Tower, the small group of worshipers assembled for the 8 a.m. Sabbath service last Saturday at Neve Shalom, the ancient city's largest synagogue. A little more than an hour into prayers in the temple's cool, newly white-washed interior, the reader began reciting the verses of Deuteronomy 16. Among the lines is the well-known biblical injunction "Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live...
...ISTANBUL, Turkey--Two Arab terrorists stormed Istanbul's main synagogue yesterday, killing 21 worshipers and wounding four with submachine-gun fire before blowing themselves up with hand grenades, officials said...
...horrifying," Anatolia quoted Istanbul's deputy governor, Hasan Ali Ozer, as saying...
...Washington, State Department spokesman Bruce Ammerman said seven rabbis were reported among the dead and that Istanbul's chief rabbi, David Asseo, reportedly was wounded. Ammerman said U.S. authorities in Turkey were trying to determine if any Americans were killed or wounded...