Turkish government plans to boost Diyanet budget as its foreign network expands
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s controversial Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), which oversees mosques, trains imams and funds religious programs at home and ...
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US Hamas financing case exposes Turkey-based charity network and Erdogan gov’t
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A senior Hamas operative based in Istanbul allegedly used a major UK-registered Islamic charity to secretly channel millions ...
Turkish president’s relative reveals Erdogan’s goal of resurrecting Ottoman religious authority
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A televised interview with Sadık Albayrak, an in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a longtime ideologue ...
Turkey recalibrates global religious strategy to bypass European restrictions, committee records reveal
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s powerful, multi-billion dollar religious authority, the Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, has crafted a sophisticated and long-term strategy to ...
European governments tighten controls on Turkey’s politicized religious authority Diyanet
Levent Kenez/Stockholm A parliamentary meeting in Ankara has provided detailed insight into the overseas operations of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious ...
Turkey funds radical jihadism in Gaza through gov’t-run foundation under pretext of charity
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A government-run religious foundation with multi-billion dollar assets in Turkey has quietly been funding Hamas, designated as a ...
Turkey continues to convert historic sites to mosques as part of Islamization campaign
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The Islamist regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to convert historic museums into mosques as part ...
Turkish President Erdogan’s operative in the US put on airline blacklist
Abdullah Bozkurt / Stockholm Ibrahim Halil Demir, a longtime executive of a Chicago-based Islamic charity with close ties to the ...
Erdogan ally calls for mass killing of Zionists, declares ‘humanity has no other choice’
Levent Kenez/Stockholm In a chilling display of hate speech aired on the Turkish government-funded TV Net channel on May 21, ...
Turkey’s top imam says Muslims who don’t boycott Israel-friendly companies should question their faith
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Ali Erbaş, head of the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), Turkey’s top religious authority, suggested that Muslims who ...
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