TURKEY: Thousands in Turkey protest against violence in Egypt, as prime minister Tayyip Erdogan condemns the gun fight in Cairo's al-Fateh mosque

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  • Title: TURKEY: Thousands in Turkey protest against violence in Egypt, as prime minister Tayyip Erdogan condemns the gun fight in Cairo's al-Fateh mosque
  • Date: 17th August 2013
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (AUGUST 17, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF CROWD WAVING EGYPTIAN AND SYRIAN FLAGS AND CHANTING SLOGANS 5, PROTESTERS CHANTING "GOD IS GREAT" (SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) TURKISH PROTESTER, ALI EKBER, SAYING: "They will not thwart the rise of Islam. Sooner or later it will happen. Muslims have never been in favour of violence, they have never commited any crime, only
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  • Location: Turkey
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: International Relations
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  • Story Text: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday (August 17) denounced the ferocious confrontations in Egypt and criticised the government for engaging in a gun fight in Cairo's al-Fateh mosque.
    Security forces in Egypt cleared the mosque after a gunbattle with followers of the Muslim Brotherhood.
    "Mosques are holy places. But they have destroyed mosques and set them ablaze both in Syria and Egypt. Bashar and Sisi are no different from each other," Erdogan told a political rally in Bursa.
    His Islamist party has similar political roots to the Muslim Brotherhood.
    In Istanbul, thousands of protesters gathered to express solidarity with deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi and his Brotherhood party.
    One of the protesters said nobody could stop the rise of Islam.
    "They will not thwart the rise of Islam. Sooner or later it will happen. Muslims have never been in favour of violence, they have never commited any crime, only defended their rights, and we are here to support our brothers," Ali Ekber said.
    Many Western allies have denounced the killings in Egypt, including the United States, alarmed by the chaos in a country which has a strategic peace treaty with Israel and operates the Suez Canal, a major artery of world trade.
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