Every year during the holy month of Ramadan, Turks head towards Al-Aqsa Mosque. They insist on visiting the Holy City in Palestine and “sanctifying” the Hajj ritual.
They believe that visiting Jerusalem is “equivalent to half of Hajj,” which prompts them to be keen to go during Ramadan. More than 15,800 Turks visited Jerusalem in 2016, and the number rose to more than 43,000 two years later, so the numbers will continue to rise after the end of the crisis and reach 50,000 in 2022.