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...shirking his official duties b) whoopee cushion on the throne c) urinating against the Turkish pavilion at Expo 2000 d) using wrong fork...
...different story, though. Unlike much of the Mediterranean in the summertime, where tourists are packed on beaches like sardines, Turkey was breathtakingly serene and surprisingly unadulterated. We lived for a week on the 75-foot sailing vessel Acanthus, navigating the incredibly calm, warm, clear waters of the Turkish coast. The sea in this region is dotted with tiny, mountainous islands covered with nothing but trees, rocks and, occasionally, goats. There are no giant hotels spoiling the landscape, and boats are certainly the preferred mode of transportation--most of the places we visited could be reached only by water...
...Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who shot the Pope in 1981, was pardoned by the Italian government and sent to Turkey for an unrelated jail sentence. Has Agca ever been to a Turkish prison...
...briefcaseful of shocking state secrets. Then you'll both end up on "60 Minutes" and with red-carpet treatment from the State Department. Washington looks likely to give serious attention to the claims of Ahmad Behbahani, the self-styled former Iranian intelligence honcho who, despite being sequestered in a Turkish refugee camp, managed to get his message to the Sunday-night CBS news show. His bombshell claim: that Iran, rather than Libya, was the power behind the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing. In fact, Behbahani claims to have been personally involved in supervising the operation, alleging that it was carried...
...fire preserved a trove of mosaics, statuary and villas. Now Zeugma faces destruction again, this time from rising floodwaters of a hydroelectric project. "It is a wall-to-wall carpet of mosaics, richer and more important than Pompeii," laments archaeologist Mehmet Onal. For a brief moment last week, Turkish officials hinted that the ruins might get a temporary reprieve, but those hopes vanished when the contractor announced that each month's delay would add $30 million to the $1 billion project. For disappointed archaeologists the only recourse is to scramble to rescue as many of the objects as possible before...