"Turkey's 'best friend' in US Senate dead at 92
WASHINGTON - Daily News with wires
Vocal Turkey supporter Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest-serving member of the U.S. Congress, died at the age of 92 after almost six decades in office, U.S. television reported early Monday.
The reports quoted Byrd’s spokesman as saying the senator had died peacefully at approximately 3 a.m. at Inova Fairfax Hospital. No specific cause of death was revealed."
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