Turkey denies approving Jerusalem holy site projectThe most recent update on this story that I can find is here. I've not heard anything about the report since.
Published: 10/17/2007 (TurkishPress.com)
ANKARA - Turkey said Wednesday that a team of Turkish experts who had inspected renovation work by Israel near Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound disapproved of the controversial project.
"The technical delegation has definitely not approved the project," said a statement from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office, contradicting remarks by Israeli Immigrant Absorption Minister Yaacov Edri Sunday that Turkish experts who had investigated the site in March had okayed the work.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
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