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infıdelium- vvhich vvere assigned to Mr. Emilio in the Iraq of the colonels(remember that by a change of destiny, Professor Emilio landed in Baghdadjust vvhen Brigadier Abdul Karim Qasim had ousted the Hashemi dynastybringing down on its vvake the political cobvveb that the senior leaderNuri Said Pasha had so carefully knitted) 8 .I myself joined later on the homage that the Cairo University paid toGarcı'a Gömez in the opening day of the IV International Congress of AndalusiCivilisation, that took place just a few months ago 9 .Despite of this, the rescue of this versatile personality is far from beingcompleted. For the time being, I will confıne myself to outlining afew ideas -crisscrossed vvith certain relevant data on the Embassy thatGarda Gömez headed in Turkey since late 1962 till the turn of 1969-. Wevvill go rescuing piecemeal the palimpsest that constitute today the tracesof that episode.GARCIA GOMEZ, AMBASSADOR OF SPAIN IN TURKEY.IN THE EYE OF THU REPUBLİCAN WHIRLWINDBut, in the face of the situation of generalised "destabilisation" thatGarcıa Gomez met vvhen he undertook his duties as Ambassador of Iraqand Lebanon -with the ramification in Afghanistan in his capacity ofnon-resident Plenipotentiary Minister- what novelties did Mr. Emilio'slanding in the Anatolian peninsula mean for him?In a letter dated 30 November 1962, the Head of the Spanish Stateaddressed a message to the President of the Turkish Republic bearing thefollovving heading:"Great and Good Friend:The live desire that moves Me to permanently cultivate and highten,by vvay of a faithful interpreter of My sentiments, the good relations offriendship that happily exists between Our tvvo Countries, has promptedMe to appoint as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Spainto Your Excellency's Country, to Mr. Emilio Garcıa Gömez, Lord of theGreat Cross of the Isabel la Catölica Order, ete, ete" 10 .8. See R. VILLANUEVA ETCHEVERRIA. The fırst Embassy of Professor Garcı'aGömez (seleetion of his dispatehes and Letters to Minister Castiella from 1958 to1960). Madrid, Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, 1997.9. This Conference was organised by the Department of Spanish Language and Literatüreof Cairo University betvveen 3-5 March 1998. The Minutes recording the paperssubmitted vvill be published shortly.10. See "File of Emilio Garcıa Gömez (File of E.G.G.) in the Diplomatic Archive of theMinistry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid (p. 536, file 359).716