A Shi'ite girl takes part in a re-enactment of the battle of Kerbala during an Ashura procession in Istanbul December 26, 2009. Thousands of Shi'ite Muslims gathered in Istanbul's Halkali district to commemorate the Ashura religious festival, the day when Imam Hussein, one of Prophet Mohammad's grandsons, was killed near the Iraqi city of Kerbala in 680 AD.
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