Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in Turkey for a four-day visit that has sparked mass protests. This is the pope’s first visit to a Muslim country since his remarks linking Islam and violence. On Saturday, 15,000 demonstrators gathered in Ankara to protest his visit.

Turkish protester: “We, the Alperen group, do not want the pope, who made insulting statements about the Muslim world, to enter this country and to make it dirty. And we will do what we can to avoid this within a democratic framework.”

Turkey has said security for the pope will be even higher than for President Bush’s visit two years ago.