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In Anatolia, Turkey, there’s history at every turn, from a 3rd century Roman bridge to a castle ‘made with milk’, and some of the earliest evidence of bureaucracy ...

When Pope Benedict XVI travels to Turkey this week, ... And yet, in some ways, Turkey already is part of Europe, even in its most conservative Islamic heartland of Central Anatolia.

After all, Turkey’s quest to join the West, which goes as far back as the first attempts at Europeanization by Ottoman elites in the early eighteenth century, is as old as modern Europe itself. Rather ...

Today’s Turkey is starkly different from the secular, Westernized state envisioned by Ataturk 100 years ago. ... Ataturk set out for the Turkish heartland of Anatolia to carve out a new homeland.

He was ordained a bishop in the Basilica of St. Justina in Padua, northern Italy, and then left his homeland for İskenderun, a coastal city in southern Turkey. The Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia ...