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Organizers cancel speech by ‘gay imam’ Mohamed Zahed in İstanbul

A speech that was planned to be given in İstanbul in November by Dr. Ludovic Mohamed Zahed, a French-Algerian imam and scholar of Islam...

Turkish-American imam in New York busted in civilian child sex abuse sting

A Turkish-American imam in New York was charged with attempted child sex abuse after he was busted in a civilian sting operation that exposes...

Hagia Sophia imam urges elimination of principle of secularism in new constitution

The chief imam of the Hagia Sophia, which was converted into a mosque from a museum last summer, has said the principle of secularism...

Theologians say Islamic sources cannot be used as pretext to attack LGBT individuals

A Turkish imam’s homophobic comments led to an investigation in Belgium, which brought into the spotlight Islam’s views on LGBT. Theologian Ahmet Kurucan says...

Turkey appoints 3 imams, 5 muezzins to Hagia Sophia

Turkey's top religious authority on Thursday appointed three imams and five muezzins to Hagia Sophia Mosque, an iconic landmark in İstanbul set to open...

Fistfight erupts at Turkish mosque after imam refuses to perform group prayer due to coronavirus

A heated argument and brief altercation took place at a mosque in Turkey’s northwestern province of Sakarya after an imam declined attendees’ requests to perform a...

Imam announces candidacy for ruling party mayor in mosque

İmdat Atmaca, an imam in the Ayvacık district of northern Samsun province, announced at the end of Friday prayers last week that he was...

French magazine reveals widespread corruption in DİTİB in France

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...

Investigation launched into imam questioning donations to mosques

Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into an imam who in a video message on social media three months ago raised questions about donations...

[OPINION] Turkish Spy Imams 2.0 coming up

Abdullah Bozkurt European governments’ increased scrutiny of Turkish imams who were dispatched by Ankara to serve diaspora groups amid embarrassing revelations of pervasive and unlawful...

[VIDEO] Turkish imam in Australia mobilizes worshippers to spy on Gülen movement

Salih Arslan, a member of the board of the Ankara-funded Süleymaniye mosque in the Australian city of Perth, was revealed to have incited worshippers...

Erdoğan says naysayers risk afterlife as well

Waging a nonstop “yes” campaign ahead of a referendum on April 16 on the switch to an executive presidency, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on...

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