Then cannon began to boom at five-minute intervals as Kemal Ataturk, the Father of the Turks ... Many of the 7,000 marching Turkish soldiers wore their Korean war decorations.

Thousands attended the ceremony, with some praying in ... of the secular Turkish republic. It also dwarfs a monument to the republic, and its founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. "Taksim Mosque now ...