Kandil

Turkey has closed nationwide mosques for the upcoming Friday prayers and the holy night of Lailat al Miraj ("Miraç Kandili" in Turkish) as part of precautions taken against the novel coronavirus outbreak.

If you take your political campaign to mosques, then you should realize that you would be dividing the people who go to mosques to pray; you would be separating the congregants.    

The other day Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar said, ?Our heroic comrades in arms are exerting care and sensitivity not to harm civilian targets and citizens.? 

The town of Selçuk, in the western Turkish province of ?zmir, which hosts around 2.5 million tourists visiting the nearby ancient site of Ephesus every year, is hoping to improve its faith tourism potential and draw more tourists.

The 22,000 Muslims of Constanta (southeastern Romania, on the Black Sea shore) celebrate on Friday the birth of Prophet Muhammad, a holiday called Mevlid Kandili in the Turkish-influenced local tradition.