Mystics and Warriors
Michael Banister
- Flor
- Benavides,
- whose
- Sephardic
- Jewish
- family
- had
- to
- flee
- Baghdad
- in
- the
- late
- 1940's,
- grew
- up
- in
- Chicago.
- When
- she
- was
- 10
- years
- old,
- her
- older
- brother
- Idris
- returned
- to
- Chicago
- from
- an
- extended
- buying
- trip
- with
- four
- Persian
- friends
- throughout
- the
- Eastern
- Mediterranean.
- As
- a
- girl,
- Flor
- had
- loved
- Idris's
- stories
- of
- that
- trip,
- especially
- his
- description
- of
- the
- group's
- encounter
- in
- Malta
- with
- a
- mysterious,
- almost
- wizardly,
- man
- known
- as
- Shamsuddin.
- Fifty
- years
- later,
- Flor
- learned
- that
- Shamsuddin
- had
- joined
- forces
- with
- an
- underground
- Turkish
- political
- group
- known
- as
- Konrul.
- Turgut
- Evren,
- a
- Colonel
- in
- the
- Turkish
- Army,
- was
- a
- member
- of
- the
- group.
- Their
- sociopolitical
- aims
- were
- to
- undermine
- the
- Turkish
- government
- and
- to
- defeat
- the
- growing
- Kurdish
- separatist
- movement.
- When
- the
- Colonel
- learned
- of
- a
- sophisticated
- software
- program
- used
- to
- facilitate
- communication
- among
- satellite
- phones,
- he
- tried
- to
- have
- the
- software
- stolen.
- He
- hoped
- to
- use
- the
- software
- to
- break
- into
- the
- communication
- network
- used
- by
- Kurdish
- separatist
- groups.
- However,
- Shamsuddin
- had
- other
- planns
- for
- that
- software,
- and
- stole
- the
- software
- before
- Evren
- could
- get
- his
- hands
- on
- it.
- It
- was
- only
- a
- matter
- of
- time
- before
- Evren
- learned
- of
- Shamsuddin's
- ulterior
- motive.
- And
- when
- he
- did,
- you
- can
- be
- sure
- the
- outcome
- was
- bound
- to
- be deadly.
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