"A Coming Papal Visit Focuses Anger Among the Turks
ISTANBUL, Sept. 30 — A novel was published here in May, winning more notoriety than sales, called “Assassination of a Pope.”
It was inspired not by the attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II by a Turkish gunman in 1981, but by the trip to Turkey of his successor, Benedict XVI, who is coming to this overwhelmingly Muslim country in late November primarily to meet the Orthodox patriarch, who lives in Istanbul. "
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