Last Friday our friend Paul Martin Xerxes received the Ambassador of Chile in Turkey, Don Francisco Marambio, the Medal of Civil Merit with the rank of Commander for the promotion of Chilean culture at the Instituto Cervantes Istanbul. The institute has organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Chile week in Turkey Chile 2003 that was attended of actress Tamara Acosta, the centenary of the birth of Pablo Neruda and presentations of books as a country Chile or Latin descriptions Istanbul, edited by Paulino Toledo.
data Order of Merit, 1817 by Bernardo O'Higgins , based on the Legion of Honor French 
. Paul Martin Ahasuerus by signals that had a cousin married to a Chilean and although he had never been in Chile, had done so through books, from La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla to confess I have lived Pablo Neruda, and his grandfather, Vicente Ahasuerus, he met the Chilean poet in the Madrid of the First Republic, when he was a medical student. The event was attended by staff of the Institute Cervantes, friends and the accredited diplomatic colony in Istanbul as Jak Hayim, Honorary Consul of Peru, Manuel Ochoa, Embassy of Venezuela or Haluk and Ebru Sanver, Honorary Consul of Chile in Istanbul.
. Paul Martin Ahasuerus by signals that had a cousin married to a Chilean and although he had never been in Chile, had done so through books, from La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla to confess I have lived Pablo Neruda, and his grandfather, Vicente Ahasuerus, he met the Chilean poet in the Madrid of the First Republic, when he was a medical student. The event was attended by staff of the Institute Cervantes, friends and the accredited diplomatic colony in Istanbul as Jak Hayim, Honorary Consul of Peru, Manuel Ochoa, Embassy of Venezuela or Haluk and Ebru Sanver, Honorary Consul of Chile in Istanbul. NOTE: The author of the photograph of Dr. Xerxes is Zaira Girbau
