"Turkish police partner with Ohio officers
It's serious learning, serious hospitality
Monday, November 07, 2005
Rachel Dissell
Plain Dealer Reporter
As the convoy carrying David Wright wove through bustling Turkish cities, past the sparkling Aegean Sea and into a countryside rich with centuries-old architecture, the Bay Village police chief couldn't help but marvel at the events that brought him halfway around the world as part of a historic partnership with police officers there.
The 12 Ohio lawmen, including Wright, were escorted by a cadre of bodyguards as they toured Turkey in 2004, and in each city they were greeted, fed and indulged like stars.
'It felt like being the president or royalty. Here, I've never been past Parma Heights or maybe Niagara Falls,' he joked."
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