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The Directorate of Religious Affairs in Turkey (Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, normally referred to simply as the Diyanet) is an official permanent state institution established in 1924 by the orders of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk under article 136 of the Constitution of Turkey to carry out some of the administrative duties previously managed by the Shaykh al-Islām, during the Ottoman Empire.[1]

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  1. 81 relations: Abdullah Gül, Ahmet Hamdi Akseki, Alawites, Alevism, Ali Bardakoğlu, Ali Erbaş, Ankara, Atatürk's reforms, Australia, Çankaya District, Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen, İmam Hatip school, Cambridge University Press, Civil society, Cologne, Cologne Central Mosque, Constitution of Turkey, Constitutional Court (Austria), Court of Cassation (Turkey), Cyprus, Democrat Party (Turkey, 1946–1960), Diyanet Center of America, Diyanet TV, Ehrenfeld, Cologne, Eyüp Sabri Hayırlıoğlu, Fasting, Fatwa, Freedom House, Gülen movement, Grand Mufti, Hanafi school, Haram, Hasan Hüsnü Erdem, Heinrich Böll, Hijab, Huddinge Municipality, Imam, In vitro fertilisation, Indonesian Ulema Council, Islam in Turkey, Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Kurdistan Workers' Party, Kurds, Lütfi Doğan, Lütfi Doğan (politician), Madhhab, Mehmet Şerefettin Yaltkaya, Mehmet Görmez, Mehmet Tevfik Gerçeker, Millî Görüş, ... Expand index (31 more) »

  2. 1924 establishments in Turkey
  3. Islam in Turkey
  4. Islamic organizations based in Turkey
  5. Quran translators
  6. Religious organizations established in 1924

Abdullah Gül

Abdullah Gül (born 29 October 1949) is a Turkish politician who served as the 11th president of Turkey from 2007 to 2014.

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Ahmet Hamdi Akseki

Ahmet Hamdi Akseki (1886 – 9 January 1951) was an Islamic scholar who served as the President of the Directorate of Religious Affairs in Turkey.

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Alawites

The Alawites, also known as Nusayrites, are an Arab ethnoreligious group that live primarily in the Levant and follow Alawism, a religious sect that splintered from early Shi'ism as a ghulat branch during the ninth century.

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Alevism

Alevism (Alevilik;; Ələvilik) is a heterodox and syncretic Islamic tradition, whose adherents follow the mystical Islamic teachings of Haji Bektash Veli, who supposedly taught the teachings of the Twelve Imams, whilst incorporating some traditions from Tengrism. Directorate of Religious Affairs and Alevism are islam in Turkey.

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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 Erbaş

Ali Erbaş (born in 1961) is a Turkish Islamic scholar and president of Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) in Turkey.

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Ankara

Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but first by the urban area (4,130 km2).

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Atatürk's reforms

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

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Çankaya District

Çankaya is a municipality and district of Ankara Province, Turkey.

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Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen

Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen (1883–1971) was a Muslim scholar of fiqh and tafsir, and the fifth president of the Directorate of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Turkey.

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İmam Hatip school

In Turkey, an İmam Hatip school (imam hatip okulu, 'hatip' coming from Arabic khatib) is a secondary education institution.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Civil society

Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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Cologne Central Mosque

The Cologne Central Mosque (DITIB-Zentralmoschee Köln, Köln Merkez-Camii) is a building commissioned by German Muslims of the Organization DİTİB for a large, representative Zentralmoschee (central mosque) in Cologne, Germany.

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Constitution of Turkey

The Constitution of Turkey, formally known as the Constitution of the Republic of Türkiye (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Anayasası), also known as the Constitution of 1982, is Turkey's fundamental law.

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Constitutional Court (Austria)

The Constitutional Court (Verfassungsgerichtshof or VfGH) in Austria is the tribunal responsible for judicial review.

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Court of Cassation (Turkey)

The Court of Cassation, officially called the Supreme Court of Appeals of the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Yargıtay Başkanlığı – Yargıtay for short), is the last instance for reviewing verdicts given by courts of criminal and civil justice in Turkey.

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Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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Democrat Party (Turkey, 1946–1960)

The Democrat Party (Turkish: Demokrat Parti, DP for short) was a centre-right political party in Turkey, and the country's third legal opposition party, after the Liberal Republican Party (Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası) established by Ali Fethi Okyar in 1930, and the National Development Party (Milli Kalkınma Partisi) established by Nuri Demirağ in 1945.

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Diyanet Center of America

Diyanet Center of America (DCA) is a non-profit organization funded by the Turkish government that is based in Lanham, Maryland, serving the needs of the Muslim community in the Washington metropolitan area.

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Diyanet TV

Diyanet TV (Religious TV) is a Turkish television station owned and operated by Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey.

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Ehrenfeld, Cologne

Ehrenfeld is a borough (Stadtbezirk) of the City of Cologne in Germany.

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Eyüp Sabri Hayırlıoğlu

Eyüp Sabri Hayırlıoğlu, born Ayyub Sabri (1 January 1887 – 8 October 1960) was a Turkish politician and lawyer.

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Fasting

Fasting is abstention from eating and sometimes drinking.

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Fatwa

A fatwa (translit; label) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given by a qualified Islamic jurist (faqih) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government.

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Freedom House

Freedom House is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights.

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Gülen movement

The Gülen or Hizmet movement (Gülen hareketi / Hizmet hareketi) is an Islamist fraternal movement.

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Grand Mufti

The Grand Mufti (also called Chief Mufti, State Mufti and Supreme Mufti) is the head of regional muftis, Islamic jurisconsults, of a state.

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Hanafi school

The Hanafi school or Hanafism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.

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Haram

Haram (حَرَام) is an Arabic term meaning 'forbidden'.

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Hasan Hüsnü Erdem

Hasan Hüsnü Erdem (8 July 1889 – 22 August 1974) was a Turkish scholar, teacher, and Mufti who served as the sixth president of the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs from 1961 to 1964.

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Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Theodor Böll (21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer.

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Hijab

In modern usage, hijab (translit) generally refers to various head coverings conventionally worn by many Muslim women.

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Huddinge Municipality

Huddinge Municipality (Huddinge kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County, east central Sweden.

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Imam

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

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In vitro fertilisation

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation where an egg is combined with sperm in vitro ("in glass").

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Indonesian Ulema Council

Indonesian Ulema Council (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, مجلس العلماء الإندونيسي, abbreviated MUI) is Indonesia's top Islamic scholars' body.

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Islam in Turkey

Islam is the most practiced religion in Turkey.

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Justice and Development Party (Turkey)

The Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi,; AK PARTİ), abbreviated officially as AK Party in English, is a political party in Turkey self-describing as conservative-democratic. Directorate of Religious Affairs and Justice and Development Party (Turkey) are organizations based in Ankara.

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Kurdistan Workers' Party

The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement which historically operated throughout Kurdistan but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.

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Kurds

Kurds or Kurdish people (rtl, Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.

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Lütfi Doğan

Lütfi Doğan (1930 – 4 December 2023) was a Turkish theologian and politician.

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Lütfi Doğan (politician)

Lütfi Doğan (1927–2018) was a Turkish academic, theologian and politician.

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Madhhab

A madhhab (way to act,, pl. label) refers to any school of thought within Islamic jurisprudence.

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Mehmet Şerefettin Yaltkaya

Mehmet Şerefettin Yaltkaya (17 November 1880 – 23 April 1947) was a Turkish religious scholar, who served as the 2nd president of religious affairs of the Republic of Turkey from 1942 until his death in 1947.

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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 scholar in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

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Mehmet Tevfik Gerçeker

Mehmet Tevfik Gerçeker (born Mehmed Tawfiq; 1898 – 28 January 1982) was a Turkish scholar.

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Millî Görüş

Millî Görüş or Erbakanism is a religious-political movement and the ideology of a series of Islamist parties inspired by Necmettin Erbakan.

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Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Turkey)

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı) is a government ministry of the Republic of Turkey, responsible for culture and tourism affairs in Turkey.

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Mufti

A mufti (مفتي) is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion (fatwa) on a point of Islamic law (sharia).

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Mustafa Çağrıcı

Mustafa Çağrıcı is a Turkish former mufti of Istanbul.

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, also known as Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 until the Surname Law of 1934 (1881 – 10 November 1938), was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father 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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National Commission on Muslim Filipinos

The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (Pambansang Komisyon sa mga Pilipinong Muslim; اللجنة الوطنية لمسلمي الفلبين: allajnat alwataniat limuslimi alfilibiyn) is a government agency in the Philippines, whose objective is to promote the rights of Muslim Filipinos and to make them active participants in Philippine nation-building.

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National Intelligence Organization

The National Intelligence Organization (Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı), also known by its Turkish initials MIT or MİT, or colloquially as the Organization (Teşkilat), is an intelligence agency of the Turkish government tasked with gathering information of national interests.

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Northern Cyprus

Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), is a de facto state that comprises the northeastern portion of the island of Cyprus.

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Oral contraceptive pill

Oral contraceptives, abbreviated OCPs, also known as birth control pills, are medications taken by mouth for the purpose of birth control.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Pope Benedict XVI

Pope BenedictXVI (Benedictus PP.; Benedetto XVI; Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014.

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Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front

The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi or DHKP-C) is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Turkey.

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Süleyman Ateş

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

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Secularism in Turkey

In Turkey, secularism or laicism (see laïcité) was first introduced with the 1928 amendment of the Constitution of 1924, which removed the provision declaring that the "Religion of the State is Islam", and with the later reforms of Turkey's first president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, which set the administrative and political requirements to create a modern, democratic, secular state, aligned with Kemalism.

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Shafi'i school

The Shafi'i school or Shafi'ism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.

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Shaykh al-Islām

Shaykh al-Islām (Šayḫ al-Islām; شِیخُ‌الاسلام, Sheykh-ol-Eslām; شِیخُ‌الاسلام, Sheikh-ul-Islām; شیخ‌ الاسلام, Şeyhülislam) was used in the classical era as an honorific title for outstanding scholars of the Islamic sciences.

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Shia Islam

Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.

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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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Tokyo Mosque

Tokyo Mosque, also known as Tokyo Camii (pronounced Jamii in Arabic), is a mosque with an adjoining Turkish culture center located in the Ōyama-chō district of Shibuya ward in Tokyo, Japan.

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TRNC Directorate of Religious Affairs

TRNC Directorate of Religious Affairs is the institution responsible for carrying out works related to faith, worship and moral principles of Islam; enlightening the society about religion, and managing places of worship in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Turkish Bars Association

The Turkish Bars Association (correctly, the Union of Turkish Bar Associations) or Türkiye Barolar Birliği (TBB) has been established in 1969 and is an organisation for Turkish lawyers, uniting over 70,000 lawyers in 79 Turkish bar associations. Directorate of Religious Affairs and Turkish Bars Association are organizations based in Ankara.

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Turkish diaspora

The Turkish diaspora (Türk diasporası or Türk gurbetçiler) refers to ethnic Turkish people who have migrated from, or are the descendants of migrants from, the Republic of Turkey, Northern Cyprus or other modern nation-states that were once part of the former Ottoman Empire.

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Turkish language

Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 to 100 million speakers.

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Washington metropolitan area

The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States.

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2016 Turkish coup attempt

On 15 July 2016, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces, organized as the Peace at Home Council, attempted a coup d'état against state institutions, including the government and president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes

On 6 February 2023, at 04:17 TRT (01:17 UTC), a 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria.

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See also

1924 establishments in Turkey

Islam in Turkey

Islamic organizations based in Turkey

Quran translators

Religious organizations established in 1924

References

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

Also known as 10.61304, Diyanet, Diyanet Isleri Bakanligi, Diyanet Isleri Baskanligi, Diyanet İşleri Bakanlığı, Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, Foundation of Religious Affairs, Ministry for Religious Affairs, Presidency for Religious Affairs, Presidency of Religious Affairs, Religious Affairs Directorate.

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