Turkey calls for international cooperation to ‘protect’ al-Aksa Mosque

Turkey calls for international cooperation to ‘protect’ al-Aksa Mosque

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Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Ankara is working to establish the “International Quds Foundation” in order “to protect” the al-Aksa Mosque from “Israeli aggression”.

 

Kurtulmus said that Turkey calls on all countries to cooperate against Israel’s “assaults” in Jerusalem (al-Quds in Arabic), the Turkish Anadolu Agency, the official government news agency in Turkey, reported on Wednesday.

 

“We will recommend setting up an ‘International Quds Foundation’ as a proposal,” he told the Turkish news agency while in Morocco on Tuesday.

 

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