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Cornucopia
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| Cover story: THE WILD
EAST A lavishly illustrated 30-page travel feature
on Turkey's dramatic southeast. By Min Hogg,
photographs by Manuel Citak and Min Hogg   
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'The Euphrates, the Tigris, Mesopotamia and the cradle of civilisation were
the evocative phrases that had drawn me into joining a trip organised by the Istanbul Heritage Fund across
the lands lying between the two great rivers and bordering Syria and Iraq to the south. Glancing at the heaps
of smart luggage - even my own was relatively new - being loaded into a coach that for the next few days was
to be our haven for the thirty or so of us travelling through eastern Anatolia, I wondered whether our
suitcases would advertise: 'Rich People, Suitable Histage Fodder'. Evidently VIP Tourism of Istanbul had
thought of this too, for whenever we were passing through a sensitive area, heavily armoured vehicles
escorted the bus back and front, thus drawing attention to our presence, but at the same time nipping in the
bud anyu trouble - and none ensued...' Min Hogg,
The Wild East, Cornucopia 24, 2001 Special feature: THE
MONSIGNOR AND THE MINISTER By Osman
Streater
 
'Soon after the
white smoke went up at the Vatican Conclave in 1958, soon after the new Pope began, in the words of Time
magazine, throwing open the windows of the Holy See, my cousin Aysegul, then at Heathfield boarding school in
England, composed a letter addressed to Pope John XXIII. In it she wrote: 'Do you remember me? I am the
great-niece of your friend Numan Menemencioglu. My grandmother, mother and I all lived with him in Ankara and
then in Paris. He was so pleased when you followed us to Paris as Papal Nuncio. But did you know that he died
last February? I loved him so much and I cry for him.'... Osman Streater, THE MONSIGNOR AND THE MINISTER, Cornucopia 24, 2001 Plus: the
gallant Fred Burnaby, Madder Red, and the adverntures of Carla Grissmann   
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