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Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Turkey tomorrow for a visit not only dogged by controversy but fraught with security worries.
About the only good news for the Pope is that Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who tried to assassinate his predecessor, is still behind bars. Since shooting John Paul II outside St Peter's Basilica in 1981, Agca has been in jail in Italy and Turkey.
This month he asked to be released, saying he wanted to meet Pope Benedict; John Paul II once visited Agca in his cell to ask why he had tried to kill him. But the Turkish authorities have remained firm; Agca will remain in prison till 2010.
But in every other respect, the Pope's four-day Turkish trip is beginning to look like the pontifical voyage from hell. Or to it.
Pope flies to Turkey amid fears
Seeded on Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:04 AM EST
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