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Wednesday, February 10 2010 01:16 GMT+2
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Ankara mulls over official participant at pope
Greek Fener Patriarch Bartolomeos said he would attend Pope John Paul II's funeral on Friday, and Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who shot and seriously wounded the pontiff in 1981, announced he also wanted to attend. Meanwhile, Turkey was attempting to come to a decision on who would officially attend.
“Whether it be at a presidential, prime ministerial or ministerial level is still to be decided,” government spokesman Cemil Çiçek told reporters after a Cabinet meeting yesterday, adding, “But there will definitely be official participation from Turkey.”
“I must be there. I must attend the funeral. If I cannot go then someone from my family should go,” Ağca told his lawyer in the Istanbul prison where he is currently serving a sentence for crimes committed in Turkey.
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