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Wednesday 07 Oct 2015 - 13:26 Makkah mean time-24-12-1436
Al-Aqsa division unacceptable Turkey’s top cleric Gormez. Image from Anadolu Agency
Istanbul, (IINA) - The head of the Turkish Presidency for Religious Affairs Mehmet Gormez said on Tuesday that the temporal and spatial division of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is unacceptable.
"We, as Muslims, do not accept the temporal and spatial division of Al-Aqsa," Anadolu Agency reported quoting him as saying.
Israeli security forces had stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sept. 13, using rubber bullets, teargas and stun grenades to disperse Muslim worshippers near the mosque for three days, which at the time drew considerable international outcry.
Major Palestinian figures and resistance factions warned that Israel was working on the spatial and temporal division of Al-Aqsa Mosque (between Muslims and Jews).
On the other side, certain extremist Jewish groups have called for the demolition of Al-Aqsa Mosque so that a Jewish temple might be built in its place.
Gormez said that it was impossible to separate what happens in Palestine from what happens today in Damascus, Cairo, Baghdad and even in Turkey's southeastern regions.
"We consider and regard them as a whole. This question must be asked to all humanity: Is it not enough blood that you have been shedding in Islamic geography for a century so that owners and residents of the state, that you established here, feel comfortable?" he said, referring to Israel.
SM/IINA
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