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February 5, 2013

In Turkey, prayer, reflection after embassy attack, death of US tourist

Turkish police bomb experts inspect the site after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara Feb. 1. The attack killed Turkish security guard Mustafa Akarsu as well as the sucide bomber, Ecevit Sanli, whom Turkish press say was the membe r of an ultra-leftist, anti-American terrorist group.

ISTANBUL - In the second row of Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Ayhan Mutlucu sat in silence after 11 a.m. Mass. She had the seen TV reports that U.S. tourist Sarai Sierra was dead, apparently murdered after disappearing two weeks earlier in a nearby area.

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