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In Turkey, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, normally referred to simply as the Diyanet) is an official state institution established in 1924 under article 136 of the Constitution of Turkey by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as a successor to the Shaykh al-Islām after the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate. [1]

100 relations: Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, Abdulmejid II, Adhan, Ahmad Yasawi, Akkan Suver, Alawites, Albania–Turkey relations, Alevism, Ali Bardakoğlu, Ali Haydar Hakverdi, Amman Message, Antuan Ilgit, Atatürk's Reforms, İhsan Özkes, Baba Ishak, Babai revolt, Baku Turkish Martyrs' Memorial, Bayram (Turkey), Bayramiye, Bektashi Order, Bektashism and folk religion, Bianet, Cathedral of Kars, Cebeci Asri Cemetery, Cemal Çavdarlı, Cemevi, Creation and evolution in public education, Criticism of Twelver Shia Islam, Death and state funeral of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Democratic initiative, Demographics of Turkey, DIB, Diyanet (disambiguation), Diyanet Center of America, Ehli Beyt Scholars Association, Fatma Hikmet İşmen, Freedom of religion in Chad, Freedom of religion in Turkey, Great Mosque of Mecca, Great Mosque of Tirana, Greek–Turkish relations, Hacı Bayram-ı Veli, Hagia Sophia, Haji Bektash Veli, Human rights in Turkey, Imam, International reactions to Fitna, Islam in Albania, Islam in Austria, Islam in Turkey, ..., Islamic calendar, June 1965, Kemalism, Khutbah, Laïcité, List of Caliphs, List of journeys of Pope Benedict XVI, List of people from Gaziantep, List of Turkish civil servants, Mecca crane collapse, Mehmet Altınsoy, Mehmet Görmez, Ministries of Turkey, Ministry of Sharia and the Foundations, Muslim Executive of Belgium, Mustafa Çağrıcı, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Mustafa Sait Yazıcıoğlu, Nusret Çolpan, Penitents Compete, Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey), Peoples' Democratic Party election campaign, June 2015, Regensburg lecture, Religion in Turkey, Süleyman Ateş, Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan, Secularism in Turkey, Shaykh al-Islām, Soma mine disaster, The New Turkey, Tokat, TRT Diyanet, Turkey, Turkish Americans, Turkish general election, June 2015, Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War, Turkish order of precedence, Turkish presidential election, 2014, Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs, Turks in Belgium, Turks in Denmark, Turks in France, Ulama, Ulu Mosque (Utrecht), Women as imams, Women in Islam, Yoga, 2015 Mina stampede, 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, 2016–present purges in Turkey. Expand index (50 more) »

Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh

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Abdulmejid II

Abdulmejid II (عبد المجید الثانی, Abd al-Madjeed al-Thâni – Halife İkinci Abdülmecit Efendi, 29 May 1868 – 23 August 1944) was the last Caliph of Islam, nominally the 37th Head of the Ottoman Imperial House from 1922 to 1924.

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Adhan

The adhan, athan, or azaan (أَذَان) (also called in Turkish: Ezan) is the Islamic call to worship, recited by the muezzin at prescribed times of the day.

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Ahmad Yasawi

Khawaja Ahmad Yasawi or Ahmed Yesevi (Qoja Axmet Yasawï, قوجا احمەت ياساۋٸ; ’Ahmad Yasawī; 1093–1166) was a Turkic poet and Sufi, an early mystic who exerted a powerful influence on the development of Sufi orders throughout the Turkic-speaking world.

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Akkan Suver

Akkan Suver (born 18 September 1942, in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish journalist, author, academic and NGO leader.

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Alawites

The Alawis, also rendered as Alawites (علوية Alawiyyah/Alawīyah), are a syncretic sect of the Twelver branch of Shia Islam, primarily centered in Syria.

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Albania–Turkey relations

Albanian–Turkish relations are the bilateral foreign relations between Albania and Turkey.

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Alevism

Alevism (Alevîlik or Anadolu Alevîliği/Alevileri, also called Qizilbash, or Shī‘ah Imāmī-Tasawwufī Ṭarīqah, or Shīʿah-ī Bāṭen’īyyah) is a syncretic, heterodox, and local tradition, whose adherents follow the mystical (''bāṭenī'') teachings of Ali, the Twelve Imams, and a descendant—the 13th century Alevi saint Haji Bektash Veli.

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Ali Bardakoğlu

Ali Bardakoğlu (born 1952) served as the president of the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı) of Turkey between 2003 and 2010.

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Ali Haydar Hakverdi

Ali Haydar Hakverdi (born 1 January 1979) is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP) who currently serves as the Member of Parliament for Ankara's first electoral district since 7 June 2015.

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Amman Message

The Amman Message (رسالة عمان) is a statement calling for tolerance and unity in the Muslim world that was issued on 9 November 2004 (27th of Ramadan 1425 AH) by King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan.

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Antuan Ilgit

Antuan Ilgit (born in 1972, Hersbruck, Germany) is a Turkish-Italian Catholic Jesuit priest, and a convert from Sunni Islam.

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Atatürk's Reforms

Atatürk's Reforms (Atatürk Devrimleri) were a series of political, legal, religious, cultural, social, and economic policy changes that were designed to convert the new Republic of Turkey into a secular, modern nation-state and implemented under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in accordance with Kemalist ideology.

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İhsan Özkes

İhsan Özkes (born 1 August 1957, Çorum), Turkish politician, and cleric.

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Baba Ishak

Baba Ishak, also spelled Baba Ishāq, Babaî, or Bābā’ī, a charismatic preacher, led an uprising of the Turkmen of Anatolia against the Seljuq Sultanate of Rûm well known as Babai Revolt c. 1239 until he was hanged in 1241.

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Babai revolt

The Babai revolt was an insurrection in the Sultanate of Rûm in the thirteenth century.

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Baku Turkish Martyrs' Memorial

The Baku Turkish Martyrs' Memorial (Bakü Türk Şehitleri Anıtı) is a memorial dedicated to the Ottoman soldiers killed during the World War I in Azerbaijan.

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Bayram (Turkey)

Bayram is the Turkic word (Originally from Middle Persian paδrām) for a nationally-celebrated festival or holiday, applicable to both national (i.e. secular) and religious celebrations.

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Bayramiye

Bayrami, Bayramiye, Bayramiyya, Bayramiyye, and Bayramilik refer to a Turkish Sufi order (tariqah) founded by Hajji Bayram (Hacı Bayram-ı Veli) in Ankara around the year 1400 as a combination of Khalwatī, Naqshbandī, and Akbarī Sufi Orders.

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Bektashi Order

Bektashi Order or Shī‘ah Imāmī Alevī-Bektāshī Ṭarīqah (Tarikati Bektashi; Bektaşi Tarîkatı) is a dervish order (tariqat) named after the 13th century Alevi Wali (saint) Haji Bektash Veli from Khorasan, but founded by Balım Sultan.

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Bektashism and folk religion

Folk religious practices remain in the Bektashiyyah tariqa and certain practices are also found to a lesser extent in Balkan Christianity and non-Bektashi Balkan Islam as well, according to some Western Islamic scholars.

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Bianet

Bianet (acronym for lit) is an independent Turkish press agency based in Istanbul.

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Cathedral of Kars

The Cathedral of Kars, also known as the Holy Apostles Church (Կարսի Սուրբ Առաքելոց եկեղեցի, Karsi Surb Arakelots' yekeghets'i; Aziz Havariler Kilisesi or "Church of the Twelve Apostles" 12 Havariler Kilisesi) is a former Armenian Apostolic church in Kars, eastern Turkey.

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Cebeci Asri Cemetery

The Cebeci Asri Cemetery (Cebeci Asri Mezarlığı) is a cemetery located in the Cebeci quarter of central Ankara, Turkey serving multiple religions.

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Cemal Çavdarlı

Cemal Çavdarlı (born 15 March 1966) is a binational Turkish-Belgian politician, formerly active in the Socialist Party – Differently (SP.A), since May 2010 in the Lijst Dedecker (LDD), a conservative liberal party and since April 2011 in the Islamic conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey.

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Cemevi

A cemevi or cem evi (pronounced and sometimes written as djemevi; meaning literally "a house of gathering" in Turkish or more precisely, "house of cem") is a place of fundamental importance for Turkey's Alevi-Bektashiyyah tariqa populations and traditions.

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Creation and evolution in public education

The status of creation and evolution in public education has been the subject of substantial debate and conflict in legal, political, and religious circles.

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Criticism of Twelver Shia Islam

Criticism of Twelver Shia Islam dates from the initial rift between the two primary denominations of Islam, the Sunni and the Shia.

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Death and state funeral of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, first President of the Republic of Turkey, died at the Dolmabahçe Palace, his official residence in Istanbul, on 10 November 1938.

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Democratic initiative

Democratic initiative process (Demokratik açılım süreci) is the name of the process in which the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched a project aiming to improve standards of democracy, freedoms and respect for human rights in Turkey.

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Demographics of Turkey

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Turkey, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

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DIB

Dib, dib or DIB may stand for.

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Diyanet (disambiguation)

Diyanet (a Turkish word for office or authority for Islamic religious affairs) may refer to.

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Diyanet Center of America

Diyanet Center of America (DCA) is a non-profit organization based in Lanham, Maryland serving the needs of the Muslims in the Washington Metropolitan Area.

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Ehli Beyt Scholars Association

The Ehli Beyt Scholars Association (Ehlibeyt Alimleri Derneği, abbr. Ehla-Der) is the main Turkish Jaafari Shia organization founded on May 31, 2011 in Istanbul.

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Fatma Hikmet İşmen

Fatma Hikmet İşmen (1918 – May 9, 2006) was a Greek-born Turkish agricultural engineer with a specialization in plant pathology, as well as a politician who served as a senator for the socialist Workers Party of Turkey from 1966 to 1975.

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Freedom of religion in Chad

The Constitution of Chad provides for freedom of religion; however, at times, the Government limited this right for certain groups.

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Freedom of religion in Turkey

Turkey is a secular country in accordance with Article 24 of its constitution.

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Great Mosque of Mecca

The Great Mosque of Mecca, also called Al-Haram Mosque (al-Masjid al-Ḥarām, "the Forbidden Mosque" or "the Sacred Mosque") or Grand Mosque of Makkah, is the largest mosque in the world, and surrounds the Islamic Qiblah (قِـبْـلَـة, Direction of Prayer), that is the Kaaba in the Hejazi city of Mecca (مَـكَّـة, Makkah), Saudi Arabia.

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Great Mosque of Tirana

The Great Mosque of Tirana (Xhamia e Madhe e Tiranës) or Namazgâh Mosque (Xhamia e Namazgjasë) is a mosque which is currently being built in Tirana, Albania.

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Greek–Turkish relations

The relations between the Greek and the Turkish states have been marked by alternating periods of mutual hostility and reconciliation ever since Greece won its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1832.

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Hacı Bayram-ı Veli

Hacı Bayram-ı Veli or Haji Bayram Wali (الحاج بيرم ولي) (1352–1430) was a Turkish poet, a Sufi, and the founder of the Bayrami Sufi order.

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Hagia Sophia

Hagia Sophia (from the Greek Αγία Σοφία,, "Holy Wisdom"; Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Ayasofya) is a former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica (church), later an Ottoman imperial mosque and now a museum (Ayasofya Müzesi) in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Haji Bektash Veli

Haji Bektash Veli or Ḥājī Baktāsh Walī (حاجی بکتاش ولی Ḥājī Baktāš Walī; Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli) was an Alevi Muslim mystic, saint, Sayyid, humanist, and philosopher, who lived from 1209 to 1271.

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Human rights in Turkey

Human rights in Turkey are protected by a variety of international law treaties, which take precedence over domestic legislation, according to Article 90 of the 1982 Constitution.

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Imam

Imam (إمام; plural: أئمة) is an Islamic leadership position.

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International reactions to Fitna

The International reaction to Fitna consisted of condemnation from Muslims, several fatwa against Geert Wilders, and attempts by many Islamic countries to censor the film.

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Islam in Albania

Islam in Albania mainly arrived during the Ottoman period when the majority of Albanians over time converted to Islam and in particular two of its denominations: Sunni and Bektashi (a Shia-Sufi order).

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Islam in Austria

Islam in Austria is the largest minority religion and the second most widely professed religion in the country, practiced by 8% of the total population according to 2016 estimates.

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Islam in Turkey

Islam in Turkey, The established presence of Islam in the region that now constitutes modern Turkey dates back to the latter half of the 11th century, when the Seljuks started expanding into eastern Anatolia.

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Islamic calendar

The Islamic, Muslim, or Hijri calendar (التقويم الهجري at-taqwīm al-hijrī) is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 months in a year of 354 or 355 days.

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June 1965

The following events occurred in June 1965.

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Kemalism

Kemalism (Kemalizm), also known as Atatürkism (Atatürkçülük, Atatürkçü düşünce), or the '''Six Arrows''' (Altı ok), is the founding ideology of the Republic of Turkey.

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Khutbah

Khutbah (Arabic: خطبة khuṭbah, hutbe) serves as the primary formal occasion for public preaching in the Islamic tradition.

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Laïcité

Laïcité, literally "secularity", is a French concept of secularism.

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List of Caliphs

This is a list of people who have held the title of Caliph, the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the Caliphate, and the title for the ruler of the Islamic Ummah, as the political successors to Muhammad.

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List of journeys of Pope Benedict XVI

With an average of three foreign journeys per year from 2006 to 2009, Pope Benedict XVI was as active in visiting other countries as his predecessor, John Paul II, was at the same age from 1999 to 2002.

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List of people from Gaziantep

This is a list of notable people from Gaziantep, Turkey.

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List of Turkish civil servants

This is a list of notable civil servants of the Republic of Turkey.

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Mecca crane collapse

On 11 September 2015, a crawler crane toppled over onto the Masjid al-Haram, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394.

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Mehmet Altınsoy

Mehmet Altınsoy (1924 in Aksaray – 17 February 2007 in Ankara) was a Turkish politician, co-founder of the Motherland Party (Anavatan Partisi), Mayor of Ankara and minister of state.

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Mehmet Görmez

Mehmet Görmez (born 1959) is the former President of the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı from November 2010 to 31 July 2017, commonly known as Diyanet) and as such legally the highest level Islamic cleric in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

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Ministries of Turkey

The most influential part of the executive of the Turkish government are the ministries.

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Ministry of Sharia and the Foundations

Ministry of Sharia and the Foundations (Şerriye ve Evkaf Vekaleti) was a former government ministry in Turkey.

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Muslim Executive of Belgium

De Moslimexecutieve (Dutch) or L'Exécutif des musulmans de Belgique (French) (Muslim Executive of Belgium) is the official Muslim interlocutor of the Belgian federal government for the implementation of the July 19, 1974 law recognizing Islam as one of the subsidized religious or secular communities in Belgium according to the law of March 4, 1870.

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Mustafa Çağrıcı

Mustafa Çağrıcı (born 1950) is a Turkish professor for Islamic theology and a former mufti of Istanbul.

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (19 May 1881 (conventional) – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and founder of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President from 1923 until his death in 1938.

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Mustafa Sait Yazıcıoğlu

Mustafa Sait Yazıcıoğlu (born 1949 in Sürmene, Turkey) is a minister of state of Turkey.

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Nusret Çolpan

Nusret Çolpan (October 1, 1952 – May 31, 2008) was a Turkish painter, architect and miniaturist, renowned for his paintings in Ottoman miniature style depicting cities around the world, particularly Istanbul.

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Penitents Compete

Penitents Compete (Tövbekarlar Yarışıyor) was a planned 2009 Turkish reality television series in which a Jewish rabbi, a Buddhist monk, a Greek Orthodox priest, and a Muslim imam were to attempt to convert a group of 10 atheists each week.

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Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)

The Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkish: Halkların Demokratik Partisi (HDP), Kurdish: Partiya Demokratîk a Gelan), or Democratic Party of the Peoples, is a pro-minority political party in Turkey.

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Peoples' Democratic Party election campaign, June 2015

The Peoples' Democratic Party election campaign of June 2015 was the official election campaign of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) for the June 2015 general election in Turkey.

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Regensburg lecture

The Regensburg lecture or Regensburg address was delivered on 12 September 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg in Germany, where he had once served as a professor of theology.

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Religion in Turkey

Islam is the largest religion in Turkey according to the state, with 99.8% of the population being automatically registered by the state as Muslim, for anyone whose parents are not of any other officially recognised religion.

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Süleyman Ateş

Süleyman Ateş (born 3 January 1933) is a Turkish theologian, philosopher, and writer.

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Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan

Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan, (1888 – September 16, 1959), was a 20th-century Islamic scholar born in the small Ottoman village of Ferhatlar, also known as and today Delchevo in the Razgrad Province, Bulgaria.

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Secularism in Turkey

Secularism in Turkey defines the relationship between religion and state in the country of Turkey.

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Shaykh al-Islām

Shaykh al-Islām (شيخ الإسلام, Šayḫ al-Islām; Şeyḫülislām) was used in the classical era as an honorific title for outstanding scholars of the Islamic sciences.

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Soma mine disaster

On 13 May 2014, an explosion at a coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire, which burned until 15 May.

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The New Turkey

The New Turkey: The Quiet Revolution on the Edge of Europe is a 2005 Granta Books publication by BBC World Affairs Correspondent Chris Morris which examines the potential and the problems of the far-reaching political and economic reforms being undertaken in what the author describes as a second revolution in Turkey.

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Tokat

Tokat is the capital city of Tokat Province of Turkey in the mid-Black Sea region of Anatolia.

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TRT Diyanet

TRT Diyanet (TRT religious) is a Turkish television station owned and operated by Turkish Radio and Television Corporation and Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey.

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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Turkish Americans

Turkish Americans (Amerikalı Türkler) are Americans of Turkish descent or origin.

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Turkish general election, June 2015

The Turkish general election of June 2015 took place on 7 June 2015 in all 85 electoral districts of Turkey to elect 550 members to the Grand National Assembly.

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Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War

Turkey, which had had a relatively friendly relationship with Syria over the decade prior to the start of the civil unrest in Syria in the spring of 2011, condemned the Syrian president Bashar Assad over the violent crackdown on protests in 2011 and later that year joined a number of other countries demanding his resignation.

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Turkish order of precedence

The following is the list of Turkish order of precedence approved by the President of Turkey and administered by the Directorate of Protocols of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, incorporating the latest corrections on 8 May 2008.

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Turkish presidential election, 2014

Presidential elections were held on 10 August 2014 in order to elect the 12th President of Turkey.

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Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs

The Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (Türkisch-Islamische Union der Anstalt für Religion e.V., Diyanet İşleri Türk-İslam Birliği), usually referred to as DİTİB, is one of the largest Islamic organisations in Germany.

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Turks in Belgium

Turks in Belgium or Belgian Turks refers to Turkish people who have immigrated to Belgium.

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Turks in Denmark

Turks in Denmark or Danish Turks (Tyrkere i Danmark; Danimarka Türkleri) refers to people living in Denmark with ancestral background from Turkey.

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Turks in France

Turks in France or French Turks (Turcs de France; Fransa Türkleri) refers to the Turkish people who live in France.

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Ulama

The Arabic term ulama (علماء., singular عالِم, "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ulema; feminine: alimah and uluma), according to the Encyclopedia of Islam (2000), in its original meaning "denotes scholars of almost all disciplines".

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Ulu Mosque (Utrecht)

The Ulu Mosque in Utrecht is located at the Mosque square; the first square or street in the Netherlands named after an Islamic religious building.

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Women as imams

There is a current controversy among Muslims regarding the circumstances in which women may act as imams, i.e. to lead a congregation in salah (prayer).

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Women in Islam

The experiences of Muslim women (Muslimāt, singular مسلمة Muslima) vary widely between and within different societies.

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Yoga

Yoga (Sanskrit, योगः) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India.

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2015 Mina stampede

On 24 September 2015 an event described as a "crush and stampede" caused deaths estimated at well over 2,000 pilgrims, suffocated or crushed during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt

On 15 July 2016, a coup d'état was attempted in Turkey against state institutions, including the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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2016–present purges in Turkey

The 2016–present purges in Turkey are an ongoing series of purges by the government of Turkey enabled by a state of emergency in reaction to the 15 July failed ''coup d'état''.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate_of_Religious_Affairs

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