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...Pope Urban II into the frenzy that will later be called the First Crusade. The maimed pilgrim boards a ship at Genoa and then finds his progress stalled. He is captured by pirates and put up for sale at a slave market in Tripoli. His purchaser, a wealthy Turkish merchant, immediately negotiates his freedom and brings him home in friendship to Antioch, that unfortunate city whose destiny lies between the Crusaders and their goal. Looking out at the tents of the besieging armies, the German Jew reflects on the oddity of his position: "I stand on this wall built...
General Evren has saved democracy in Turkey, preserving key rights for the Turkish people [April 11]. Before the coup, the country was on the brink of collapse. Now, 2½ years later, the economy is prospering and the people have confidence in the government. Evren's regime is a compromise between Western-style democracy and authoritarian rule, and is well suited to a developing country with shallow democratic roots, like Turkey. Under Evren, Turkey continues to be a dependable ally...
Furthermore, Chang believes that Martin acts as a "stabilizing force." Coach Ihsan Gurdal, who played for the Turkish national team, agrees: "Brad is very consistent and calm, very much in control. He never loses his confidence. He is the one that talks sense when we are in a tough position, and he calms the young kids...
Towering over Ararat is the mountain of the same name, a symbol of unattainable purity. The characters frequently invoke it, or plan visits to Soviet Armenia so they may glimpse it in the mists. The shadow it casts upon the characters is the memory of the Turkish massacre of Armenians in 1915. Indeed, one important figure is Everyman's executioner, who improvises a story of how he participated in this and other mass murders...
Ever since that fateful day in St. Peter's Square, Italian authorities have suspected that Agca had accomplices. But at his trial in July 1981 the Turkish terrorist stoutly insisted that he had acted alone. In the spring of 1982 Agca began changing his story. He reportedly told Martella that while staying in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia in 1980, he was offered 3 million deutsche marks (then worth $1.25 million) to kill the Pope by Bekir Celenk, a shadowy Turkish businessman with ties to his country's arms and drug smugglers. In Rome, Agca said...