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's top cleric has been attacked for comments deemed offensive to the modern republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, during a sermon at İstanbul's iconic...
Turkey's top religious authority on Thursday appointed three imams and five muezzins to Hagia Sophia Mosque, an iconic landmark in Ä°stanbul set to open...
Turkey's Hagia Sophia will open to visitors outside prayer times and its Christian icons will remain, religious officials said Tuesday, after a court ruling...
Turkey has arrested four of its nationals on suspicion of spying for France on conservative and religious groups, AFP reported, citing local sources.
The news...
The head of Turkey’s top religious body, the Diyanet,
announced on Friday that mosques would be open for communal prayers starting
from June 12 after a...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan on Monday defended a top religious official who claimed homosexuality caused disease, corrupted people and was condemned in Islamic...
The Human Rights
Association (Ä°HD) of Turkey has filed a criminal complaint against Professor
Ali ErbaÅŸ, head of the Turkish Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), for
remarks targeting...
A new fatwa from Turkey’s top religious authority on
Tuesday said the government was allowed to take out loans with interest for its
public housing projects,...
Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, or Diyanet, went
beyond the budget allocated to it from the state and spent TL 3 billion more in
2018, according to...
The Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) ordered
Turkish mosques to hold symbolic funeral prayers for Egypt’s ousted president
Mohamed Morsi, who died of a heart attack...
