German politicians have expressed skepticism over a campaign launched by the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB) -- the largest Islamic umbrella group in...
At a time when the Turkish economy is going through difficult times, Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) has spent TL 3.2 million (around $600,000)...
Abdullah Bozkurt
The multinational proposal tabled last year by the parliamentarians of the Council of Europe (CoE), the large intergovernmental organization that champions democracy, the...
Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) on Friday dismissed an imam who started a rock band and gave concerts in the country and abroad,...
Turkey’s top religious authority has spent over 10 million Turkish lira ($1.6 million) to repair mosques and religious buildings damaged in northern Syria, the...
French weekly magazine Le Point has discovered through documents it obtained that there is extensive corruption in the French branch of the Turkish-Islamic Union...
Nevzat Çiçek, a pro-government journalist, has said Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate and state intelligence agencies are conducting significant research on religious communities in Turkey...
by Abdullah Bozkurt
Tapping on huge financial and human resources available for the use of the Turkish government’s religious arm, Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
A mosque funded by Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) in the German city of Schweinfurt has banned entry to followers of the Gülen movement, inspired...
Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens has announced that he has ordered security and intelligence units in the country to closely monitor mosques operated by...
