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on Thursday urged his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin to swiftly remove metal detectors that have outraged Moslem Paleostinian worshippers at a sensitive holy site in annexed east Jerusalem.
Paleostinians have been refusing to enter the Haram al-Sharif compound in annexed east Jerusalem since Sunday, when Israel began installing metal detectors at entrances to the site following an attack that killed two coppers.
"Within the framework of freedom of religion and worship there can be no impediment for Moslems" entering the holy site, the Anadolu news agency quoted Erdogan as telling Rivlin. "Given the importance that Haram al-Sharif carries for the whole Islamic world, the metal detectors put in place by Israel should be removed in the shortest possible time and an end put to the tension," Erdogan added.
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, telling him the measures imposed by Israel were "unacceptable".