Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) is turning into a massive corporation. Through some legal shenanigans, Hagia Sophia and Chora Church were appropriated by Diyanet and turned into mosques. Bomonti Beer Factory (was not active anymore) was recently given to Diyanet for a boarding house in the middle of İstanbul’s newly emerging nightlife. Now comes the … Read more
Turkey’s top religious body slams ‘Jedi religion’ After recently slamming the warped theology of the ISIL, Turkey’s top religious body may have another formidable enemy: The Jedi ‘Green Road’ construction protested in Rize A group of protesters read a press statement near the Rize Governor’s office against the decision to resume the construction of a road project … Read more
Turkey’s top religious body says in vitro fertilization contains adultery elements, is not acceptable Top religious affairs body has said surrogate motherhood was religiously unacceptable Ankara mayor calls for deputy PM’s resignation over row with President Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek has called on PM Davutoğlu to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç 39 dead from swine flu, Turkish … Read more
Downloading Fatwa Issued By Turkish Religious Leaders TorrentFreak For millions of people around the world the word of their particular God provides a moral compass for living life in an appropriate manner. While there are plenty of variations, most faiths agree that it is unacceptable to steal, for example. Inevitably there are gray areas and the … Read more
Twelve-year-old shot dead in Turkey’s Kurdish southeast A 12-year-old boy was shot dead in Cizre in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, the sixth person to be killed in the largely Kurdish town in the last three weeks, security sources said. The spate of killings risk undermining confidence in a two-year-old peace process between the government and the … Read more
Luxury car purchased for Turkey’s top cleric A luxury vehicle has been purchased to serve as the official car of Turkey’s top cleric. The Diyanet said it costed ‘much lower’ than 1,000,000 Turkish Liras Secularism damages religious life in Turkey, says top Diyanet official Globalization and secularism have ‘changed and damaged’ religious life, according to a Diyanet … Read more
Turkish Foreign Ministry declares itself ‘global leader’ in Twitter followers Hurriyet Daily News The declaration comes months after Turkey banned Twitter Istanbul’s Friday sermon focuses on lies, gossip via technological devices The Religious Affairs Directorate regrets the appearance of ‘a lie and gossip sector’
Judicial bill aims at silencing social media, daily says Today’s Zaman Erkan Saka, a professor of communications at Bilgi University, believes the package may well lead to the violation of democratic rights. “The package clearly favors law and order at the expense of freedoms,” he told Today’s Zaman. The draft bill, while Turkish journalist briefly detained … Read more
Başbakan?ın dilinde devrim Tayyip Erdoğan geçen gün Van?da tarihî sözler sarfetti. Akhtamar Kilisesi?nin restorasyonunun ?milletin vergileriyle? yapıldığını söyleme basiretsizliğini gösteren Bahçeli?ye cevaben ?Müslümanın da, Hıristiyanın da, Musevinin de hatta ateistin de hukukunu koruyacağız. Benim Ermeni Ortodoks vatandaşlarım var mı? Var. Bu vatandaşlarımın hukukunu korumak bizim görevimiz değil mi? Ülkemdeki Ermeni vatandaşım vergi ödüyor mu?? demek … Read more
Source in Turkish here. It seems that the budget share already increases annually: Here is the yearly amount allotted to Diyanet in Turkey’s budget in the last decade (milyon= billion) 2003 ? 771 MİLYON TL 2004 ? 1 MİLYAR TL 2005 ? 1 MİLYAR TL 2006- 1.3 MİLYAR TL 2007- 1.6 MİLYAR TL 2008 ? … Read more
Mehmet Ali Şahin’den muhalefete yeni anayasa eleştirisi http://www.iha.com.tr Bu yıl ilk kez anayasanın ilgili maddesine göre başkomutanlık sıfatını taşıyan ve bu görevini de TBMM adına yapması gereken Cumhurbaşkanımız Abdullah gül başkomutanlık göreviyle 30 Ağustos Zafer Bayramı törenlerini Çankaya köşkünde yapmaya Altaç:Önemli olan yeni anayasa Internet Haber BBC Türkçe’ye konuşan AKP Diyarbakır İl Başkanı Aydın … Read more
108 soldiers commit suicide since 2012, Turkish defense minister says The Turkish defense minister said that 166 soldiers have committed suicide or been killed in accidents across the country in the last year and a half 50 Percent of Rape Victims Are Children, TÜİK Says According to Statistics Institute of Turkey, sexual assault crimes have … Read more
Turkish ?walking woman? keeps on walking Aylin Kotil?s walk to protest the election threshold reached its fourth day on July 11, with the Republican People?s Party deputy arriving in the northwestern city of İzmit Turkish state agency to build 1 mln new houses The Housing Development Administration (TOKİ) aims to build 1 million houses … Read more
Turkey‘s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during the Global Alcohol Policy Symposium in Istanbul April 26, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer For a healthy generation, grandfather suggested me to drink ayran: Erdoğan from Hurriyet Daily News Turkish PM Erdoğan explained why he branded the salty beverage as the national drink. Turkish PM vows … Read more
Siyasî istikrar! Malî ve siyasî dayanıklılığının güçlendiğine dikkat çekilen Moody?s raporunda, ?Buna rağmen, toplumun laik ve dinî unsurları arasındaki gerilim, bazıları uzun süredir devam eden bölgesel ve etnik sorunlar siyasî risk teşkil eden alanlardan başlıcaları? denilmiş ve not artırılmamış. Yeni değil, daha önceki ekim ayı raporunda aynı ifadeler kullanılmıştı. Manipülasyon, kötü niyet, kıskançlık, ne dersek diyelim, köpürüp Moody?si de … Read more