"Cardinal says Pope wants to visit Turkey
NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI wants to visit the Muslim nation of Turkey in November but is waiting for the government in Ankara to agree to it, a Vatican cardinal said Thursday.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I invited Benedict to Istanbul for the Orthodox feast of St. Andrew at the end of November, but a formal invitation from the government in Ankara has not been forthcoming."
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