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Turkey's Shia Alevis rally to demand equal religious rights
By: Anjum Kermani
ANKARA, Turkey: The Shiite Alevis have long complained of
discrimination, prejudice and forced assimilation in Turkey while the
European Union has made religious freedoms a condition for Turkey's
troubled bid for membership of the bloc.
To demand equal religious rights, tens of thousands of followers of
Turkey's Alevi branch of Islam, arranged a protest rally in Ankara
this weekend. They were chanting slogans fortheir rights and freedom.
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"Knowledge is
better than wealth because it protects you while you have to
guard wealth. it decreases if you keep on spending it but the
more you make use of knowledge ,the more it increases . what you
get through wealth disappears as soon as wealth disappears but
what you achieve through knowledge will remain even after you."MORE
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