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As tensions mount in Jerusalem after new Israeli security measures at the highly sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has urged calm, stressing the Islamic world's sensitivity on the issue.      

"Their implementation is wrong," Yıldırım said about the Israeli measures.

Israeli police barred men under 50 from entering Jerusalem's Old City for Friday Muslim prayers as tensions rose and protests erupted over new security measures at a highly sensitive holy site.

Israeli police have banned Muslim men under the age of 50 from a contested shrine in Jerusalem, according to the Independent.

The ban comes ahead of feared mass protests over the installation of metal detectors aimed at increasing security at the site. 

Muslim leaders have called for mass protests at Friday's noon prayers.

The shrine is revered by both Muslims and Jews.

Israel reopened an ultra-sensitive holy site on July 16 closed after an attack that killed two policemen, but Muslim worshippers were refusing to enter due to new security measures including metal detectors and cameras.

Crowds chanted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) as a number of initial visitors entered Jerusalem's Haram al-Sharif compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount.

Three gunmen opened fire at police near Jerusalem's holiest site on July 14, wounding three Israelis, two of them critically, before the attackers were killed by security forces, Israeli police said.
   

A truck driven by a Palestinian rammed into pedestrians on a popular promenade in Jerusalem on Jan. 8, killing four people, according to Israeli police who called it a deliberate attack. 

"It is a terrorist attack, a ramming attack," a police spokeswoman said on Israel Radio, according to Reuters. 
Police said the dead, three women and one man, were all in their twenties. 

A Palestinian drove a truck on people in Jerusalem. According to the first information there are four soldiers dead and at least ten more people wounded.

The perpetrator was shot and killed on the spot. According to the authorities there is no doubt that the attack was intentional and not an accident.

Turkey sent fire-fighting aircraft to Israel on Nov. 24 to combat a fire that has broken out across the country, Foreign Ministry officials have told the Hürriyet Daily News, adding that Tel Aviv accepted Ankara's offer to provide assistance.

A delegation from Turkey's far-right Great Unity Party (BBP) was detained at Israel's Tel Aviv airport early on May 5, the party has said.

A delegation from Turkey's far-right Great Unity Party (BBP) was detained at Israel's Tel Aviv airport early on May 5, the party and CNN Türk have reported.