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• Nov. 30: Turkish policemen subdue demonstrators in Istanbul, on the day Pope Benedict XVI is visiting the Haghia Sophia museum and the Blue Mosque.
• Nov. 30: Pope Benedict XVI, second from right, and Istanbul's Mufti Mustafa Cagrici, right, pause during their visit inside the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
• Nov. 28: Chief of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate Ali Bardakoglu listens to Pope Benedict XVI, as they meet at the Directorate for Religious Affairs Diyanet in Ankara.
• Nov. 28: Pope Benedict XVI shakes hands with Ali Bardakoglu, head of Turkey's religious affairs.
• Nov. 28: Pope Benedict XVI, surrounded by security men, leaves Ankara's mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
• Nov. 28: Pope Benedict XVI is helped by Turkish honour guards to lay a wreath during his visit to the Anitkabir, mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Ataturk.
• Nov. 28: Pope Benedict XVI is escorted by Turkish honour guards to lay a wreath at the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Ataturk, in Ankara.
• Nov. 28: Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Pope Benedict XVI shake hands upon the pontiff's arrival at the Cankaya Palace in Ankara.
• Nov. 28: Pope Benedict XVI, with a portrait of modern Turkey's founder Ataturk in the background, shakes hands with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
• Nov. 28: Pope Benedict XVI is flanked by Turkey's Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, upon his arrival at Ankara's airport
• Nov. 28: Pope Benedict XVI, center, is accompanied by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone as he arrives at Ankara airport.
• Nov. 28: Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, looks on as Pope Benedict XVI, left, greets the media upon his arrival at the Ankara's airport.
• Nov. 28: Pope Benedict XVI arrives at Ankara's airport, Turkey.
• Nov. 28: Pope Benedict XVI talks to journalists onboard the airplane at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci airport.
• Nov. 28: Pope Benedict XVI leaves from Leonardo Da Vinci Airport, near Rome, for a four day trip to Turkey.
• Nov. 28: Police officers check a man before he is allowed to enter into the closed area of the St. Esprit Cathedral where Pope Benedict XVI will stay during his visit in Istanbul.
• Nov. 28: Riot police stand guard in front of complex of the St. Esprit Cathedral where Pope Benedict XVI will stay in Istanbul.
• Nov. 30: Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, right, and Pope Benedict XVI, arrive for the Divine Liturgy in Honor of the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle