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Mehmet Gormez, head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate. Reuters
by Saeed Abdelrazek | Sep 16, 2016 | Middle East, Saudi Arabia
Ankara-Head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate Mehmet Görmez hailed great efforts exerted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in serving pilgrims and providing them with many facilities to perform their Hajj rituals in comfort secure conditions. Görmez addressed...
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Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims make their way to cast stones at a pillar symbolizing the stoning of Satan, in a ritual called “Jamarat,” the last rite of the annual hajj, on the first day of Eid al-Adha in Mina near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Mosa’ab Elshamy/Associated Press
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 23, 2016 | Middle East
London-Iran has resumed attempts to politicize the annual hajj pilgrimage by sending a delegation to Turkey with information about what it called the “Saudi obstruction for Iranians to perform hajj.” The semi-official Iranian news agency ISNA had reported...
