Iran, Turkey claim Sufi mystic Rumi

Teheran,Ankara have applied to register poems as joint heritage

Who can lay claim to Rumi, the Sufi mystic who is one of the world's most beloved poets? A bid by Iran and Turkey to do so has exasperated Afghanistan, country of his birth eight centuries ago.

Teheran and Ankara asked to list the work of Jalalud-Din Muhammad Rumi as their joint heritage on the UN's "Memory of the World" register in May.