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.