A young girl covered with black chadors, bursts into tears as she holds an imaginative portrait of Imam Ali, nephew and son-in-law of Prophet Mohammed, as the members of an Islamic sect called as Cafaris attend a ceremony in the outskirts of Istanbul May 10. Thousands of Turkish Cafaris commemorated the 1358th anniversary of the Shi'ite religious holiday Ashoura marking the killing of Imam Hussein in Kerbela.

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