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Erdoğan asked for handful of “Arakan” soil in his grave

23 August 2015

Arakan News Agency

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan asked for handful of the soil of Arakan in his grave in the Ottoman cemetery there.
This came through the participation of Erdoğan in a conference “Old friends meet President of the Republic,” where Erdoğan met, a number of Turkish politicians and intellectuals with whom he discussed. Where Erdoğan said: “my will to my wife and my children, when I die to put on my grave a handful of soil taken from Arakan in the tomb of Mohammed Osman Oglu buried in the Ottomans Martyrs Cemetery.

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