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Word: mehmet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tourists are discovering a Turkey that transcends popular stereotypes. In Istanbul they jam the Topkapi Palace to gaze at the 400-room harem of the sultanate and to view its incomparable treasury of emeralds, diamonds, gold and ivory. They pack the Blue Mosque and the other masterpieces of Mehmet Aga, Turkey's great 17th century architect. Bargain hunters fill the cavernous covered bazaar looking for rugs, leather goods and gold. To the south, near Izmir, tour guides jockey for position at the ruins of Ephesus, where the main attraction is the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: The Hot New Tourist Draw | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...Dominique Bellet, clinical researcher and professor at the University of Pharmacology in Paris, and Dr. Mehmet Ozturk, a former fellow of the FACR and currently an assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School, will co-direct the program with Wands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Give $600,000 For Joint Cancer Effort | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

...guilty of war crimes as alleged ((WORLD, July 6)), he deserves to be received by Pope John Paul II. Jesus loved sinners while detesting their sins. It is the Pope's job to represent this remarkable Jew in today's complex world. The Pope has extended his embrace to Mehmet Ali Agca, who tried to assassinate him, to Yasser Arafat and to the Communist rulers in his native Poland. So should he embrace Waldheim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Brotherly Embrace | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...Mehmet Ali Agca was at it again. "I am Jesus Christ," bellowed the man who shot Pope John Paul II. "All the world will be destroyed." The now familiar outburst came on March 22, the final day of the marathon "Bulgarian connection" trial in Rome. The prosecution's aim: to prove that the Turkish gunman, who was convicted in 1981 of gravely wounding the Pope on May 13 of that year in St. Peter's Square, was working for Bulgarian agents and, by implication, the Soviet Union. The ten-month trial of Agca's alleged accomplices--and of Agca himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy a Thicket of Contradictions | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...began with a bang and seems likely to end with a whimper. The bang: the gunshots fired at Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, by Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca. The whimper: Italian Prosecutor Antonio Marini's recommendation last week that three Bulgarian defendants charged with complicity in the attack be acquitted on the technical ground of "insufficient evidence." If the court heeds Marini's advice when it hands down its verdict this month, the result will be a stunning blow to the * "Bulgarian Connection" theory, which maintained that Bulgarian intelligence services organized the papal attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Vanishing Bulgarian Connection | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

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