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Thousands of Turkish people demonstrated on Monday in Istanbul's Taksim square denouncing the Israeli repeated attempts to storm the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
The demonstrators chanted pro Palestinian resistance slogans and hoisted photos of Hamas's martyred leaders and burnt Israeli flags.

Bulunt Yildirim, the head of the Turkish relief society IHH, delivered a statement on behalf of the Turkish civil institutions that organized the rally warning of any attempt to harm the Aqsa Mosque.

He urged the Turkish masses to express solidarity with the Palestinians holding an open-ended vigil inside the Aqsa Mosque to protect it from Israeli settlers' attempts to invade the holy site under the protection of Israeli forces.

Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque are the responsibility of all Muslims, he said, asking the Turkish leadership to adopt an official stance against what is happening in the Aqsa Mosque.

Yildirim said that any attack on the Aqsa should be dealt with as an attack on Turkish lands.

He also asked the organization of Islamic conference (OIC) to immediately act before the Aqsa is demolished at the hands of the Israelis, and called for an emergency OIC meeting to adopt decisions deterring the Israelis from tampering with the first Qibla (direction of prayers) for Muslims and the third holiest shrine in Islam.