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Amid the Minarets of Istanbul, Club Music Pulses
IT was supposed to be a day of mourning.
At exactly 9:05 a.m. on Nov. 10, traffic abruptly stopped throughout Istanbul as a citywide lament of sirens and car horns resounded among the venerable Roman ruins, Byzantine churches and Ottoman-era mosques of the millennia-old metropolis. Taxi drivers stood at attention in the frozen sea of traffic. Some motorists wiped tears from their eyes. Exactly 68 years ago to the minute, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the beloved founder of modern Turkey, drew his final breath."
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