TURKEY: CROWD PROTESTS EGYPT COUP, CHEMICAL ATTACK IN SYRIA AFTER PRAYERS IN ISTANBUL

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SUBJ: (U) TURKEY: CROWD PROTESTS EGYPT COUP, CHEMICAL ATTACK IN
Syria After Prayers in Istanbul
SOURCE: Ankara Anadolu Agency Online in English 1409
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[ (U) Unattributed report: "Turkish citizens protest against
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Following Friday's prayer, Turkish people chanted slogans against
Syria's Bashar al-Assad and Egypt's Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
ISTANBUL (AA) -- Many Turkish citizens who gathered at the yard of
Fatih Mosque in Istanbul protested against Egypt's military coup as
well as Wednesday's chemical attack that hit Syria, killing over
1,000 civilians.
Following the Friday prayer at the mosque, Turkish people chanted
slogans against Syria's Bashar al-Assad and Egypt's Abdel Fattah
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al-Sisi and marched towards the city hall.
Police helped the demonstrators by clearing the way for them so
that
they could easily continue their protests while many citizens
passing
through the streets supported the slogans and made the Rabaa sign,
which has become the symbol of struggling against massacres in
Egypt.
The protests, organised by the 'Solidarity Platform for Syrian and
Egyptian people' which was formed by Turkish non-governmental
organisations, ended in front of Istanbul's city hall.
"It is neither the fate of the Muslim world, nor that of Muslim
people, to face bloodbath," said Kenan Alpay Friday, vice president
of Ozgur-Der (The Freedom Association), a Turkish non governmental
organisation. "Here is the simplest truth: Neither Muslim countries
nor Muslim people have to submit to the immoral and illegal
practises
of despotic regimes."
A chemical attack which hit Syria early on Wednesday killed over
1,000 people and left many others wounded in the suburbs of Syria's
capital Damascus, where mostly the families of opposition groups
resided.
In Egypt, on the other hand, supporters of deposed President
Mohamed
Morsi staged rallies on Friday to denounce what they call the
"military coup" against Egypt's democratically elected leader.
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