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...complement your knowledge of Ukrainian, you can take Harvard's only summer offering in Turkic: TURK S-190: Ottoman Palaeography, which "involves intensive reading of the Siyaqat and Diwani Ottoman texts." Ownership of the Siyaqat and Diwani Ottoman texts is probably not a prerequisite of the course, but knowledge of both elementary Turkish and Ottoman...
...Rebibbia Prison by a heavy police convoy, Mehmet Ali Agca arrived in a high-security courtroom in Rome last week, presumably to tell a jury that he had been hired by Bulgarian intelligence officials to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. But as the 27-year-old Turk settled into his white steel cage in a former gymnasium converted to a courtroom, he had loftier matters on his mind. "I am Jesus Christ!" Agca shouted. "I am omnipotent. I announce the end of the world. All will be destroyed." The bizarre outburst in the opening moments of the trial...
...acted alone in St. Peter's Square on May 13, 1981, surfaced shortly after the shooting. When Agca was tried, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment two months later, the presiding judge, Severino Santiapichi, who is also conducting the current trial, suggested that "hidden minds" had directed the Turk. Italian authorities reopened the case that autumn. The investigation heated up after Agca, in a series of sometimes contradictory jailhouse revelations, described a "Bulgarian connection." Two years later, an Italian prosecutor hinted that the Soviet Union might have been involved in a plot against the Pope, using Bulgarian agents. By October...
...missing defendants, Oral Celik, a 26-year-old Turk, presents the greatest mystery. In Martella's 1,243-page indictment, Celik stands accused not only of having helped orchestrate the purported plot but of actually firing, as Agca did, at the Pope. Celik, the indictment says, escaped from St. Peter's Square in the confusion that followed the assassination attempt and has eluded authorities since...
Bagci's testimony also brought out the names of four Turks previously unmentioned in connection with the case: Mahmut Inan, Eyup Erdem, Oezdemir Vandettim and Uenal Erdal. The men, Bagci said, had helped him pass on to Agca the pistol that was used to shoot the Pope. Marini expressed hope that the court's move to subpoena three more Turks, held elsewhere in Western Europe, would produce fresh testimony. One of the three, Mehmet Sener, was convicted last week in Switzerland on heroin-smuggling charges. The court is also seeking to question a Turk identified as Aslam Samet...