Photos: Whirling dervish ritual honors Rumi, the Sufi mystic poet

Each year, thousands of people travel to the Turkish city of Konya to attend a series of events and ceremonies that mark the death of the 13th-century Islamic poet, scholar and Sufi mystic Rumi.

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