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Pope Leo warned that sidelining religious minorities such as its Christian population would be an impoverishment.
Society is alive if it has a plurality, he said, for what makes a civil society are the bridges that link its people together.
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, Ankara.
In his speech, made alongside President Erdogan in a large library in Ankara, Pope Leo said Turkey's grand Ottoman past is both a gift and a responsibility.
Pope Leo warned that sidelining religious minorities, such as its Christian population, would be an impoverishment.
Society is alive if it has a plurality, he said, for what makes a civil society are the bridges that link its people together.
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, Ankara.
Pope Leo spoke with enthusiasm about his intended mission during this six-day pilgrimage to Turkey and to Lebanon.
He visits the Middle East at a sensitive time as a tenuous ceasefire continues in Gaza after Israel's devastating offensive there.
Lebanon, the next stop for the Pope after Turkey, has also been blighted by war.
Pope Leo hopes his visit will help leaders in the region
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, Ankara, Turkey.
The Commerce Department is accusing major Italian pasta producers of anti-dumping practices.
That's when a foreign company sells their goods at a cheaper rate than at home.
The department threatens to impose duties which, when combined with recent new charges on European Union goods by the Trump administration, would push tariffs on Italian pasta to 107%.
Anti-dumping probes are fairly routine, but Italian pasta companies say they have never resulted in such extraordinarily high duties.
Italy's influential agribusiness association, Coldiretti, warns this barrier is so high that it would, quote, practically wipe out Italy's pasta exports to the United States.
The Commerce Department is accusing major Italian pasta producers of anti-dumping practices.