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Article: When Kemal Ataturk Recited Shema Yisrael: 'It's My Secret Prayer,
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- January 28, 1994
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Hillel Halkin
Forward
01-28-1994
When Kemal Ataturk Recited Shema Yisrael: `It's My Secret Prayer, Too,'. He Confessed
ZICHRON YAAKOV -- There were two questions I wanted to ask, I said over the phone to Batya Keinan, spokeswoman for Israeli president Ezer Weizman, who was about to leave the next day, Monday, Jan. 24, on the first visit ever made to Turkey by a Jewish chief of state. One was whether Mr. Weizman would be taking part in an official ceremony commemorating Kemal Ataturk.
Ms. Kenan checked the president's itinerary, according to which he and his wife would lay a wreath on Ataturk's grave the morning of their arrival, and asked what my second question was.
"Does President Weizman ...