ashura

for a change, Biden visited Samatya of Istanbul…and Istanbul news roundup…

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  Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with a fish monger in the Samatya Square neighborhood in Istanbul, Turkey, December 4, 2011. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann) Vice President Biden Checks Out Istanbul’s Samatya Square The White House (blog) Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with a fish monger in the Samatya Square … Read more

Day of Ashura mourning photos from Turkey

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Turkey’s Shia community also perform Ashura mourning…. check out more photos here.

As BDP promises greater bilingualism in Turkey’s Southeast, Social distance between Kurds, Turks widening- a politics roundup…

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Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan gives a speech during an Ashura procession in Istanbul December 16, 2010. Thousands of Shi’ite Muslims gathered in Istanbul’s Halkali district to commemorate the Ashura, where Shi’ite mourners beat themselves with steel-tipped flails or slash their bodies with knives to mark the death anniversary of Imam Hussein, a grandson of … Read more