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| Erdogan presents Cuba mosque project to Castro | |
| 2015-02-13 | |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Although Cuban officials have already agreed with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... for the construction of a mosque in Havana, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has told Cuban President Compañero Raul Castro ...Fidel's little brother... that Ankara would like to conduct its own project similar to Istanbul's iconic Ortaköy mosque in another Cuban province.
"We want to build the mosque ourselves. We don't want a partner. If you find it appropriate, we would like to build it in Havana. But if you have promised a Havana mosque to other people, then we can build our Ortaköy Mosque in another Cuban province," Erdogan quoted himself as saying to Castro. Mustafa Tutkun, the vice general manager of Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), announced in November 2014 that Ankara had been negotiating with Cuban officials to build a mosque on two hectares of land in Havana's historic center. The Diyanet had proposed the construction of a mosque similar to the picturesque Ortaköy Mosque in Istanbul, which was built by Ottoman Armenian architects Garabet and Nigogayos Balyan in 1856. | |
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