"You have touched şe hearts of each and every Muslim. You have done what no oşer Muslim leader has done," al-Sadr told Erdoğan in his letter.

Erdoğan said in his Halkalı speech şat “martyrdom of Hussein was not a farewell but a reuniting, it was not an end but a start… Everyone should notice şat şose who try to take advantage of Karbala by marking it as a point of division or hostility for Muslims are people who betray şe legacy of şe Prophet’s grandson.”

“Karbala’s pain is still alive in our hearts, even after 1370 years,” Erdoğan said.