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Source: http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/muslim-leaders-warn-jerusalems-al-aqsa-is-in-danger/660609
Muslim Leaders Warn Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa "Is in Danger"
(Anadolu-Turkey) Ilker Girit - More than 500 Muslim leaders and clerics from 30 countries met in Istanbul on Friday to warn that the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site that is located in Jerusalem, was in danger. A month-long series of Jewish holidays have in the past caused heightened tensions as many Palestinians object to the increased numbers of Jewish visitors to the Al-Aqsa compound, which Jews know as the Temple Mount.