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No state welcome for Pope in Turkey.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Turkish Embassy in Rome said today that no special welcome ceremony is planned when the Pope arrives in Ankara next month. There will be a red carpet, but no military honors. <\/p>\n

And President Ahmet Necdet Sezer won’t be there either. He will welcome the Pope later at the Presidential Palace. <\/p>\n

This appears to be an unprecedented non-observance of international protocol for welcoming visiting heads of state. When John Paul II visited Turkey in 1979, he received the full honors including a military gun salute. <\/p>\n

The embassy said that the airport did not have the approprtae space for military honors. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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