A lawyer in Turkey was put in prison after she criticized Sharia law in one of her several posts on social media, including one where she said “f*** sharia” in response to a Persian poem.
Turkish lawyer Feyza Altun was detained after she made a post criticizing Islamic law, known as Sharia, on social media.https://t.co/mcLXTnAdKH
A man from Portugal was arrested by Turkish authorities and was imprisoned because he "looked gay” and wore a crop top, exposing him to horrendous conditions and human rights violations during his time in jail.
A man says he was arrested and kept in horrific conditions in a Turkish prison for 20 days for 'looking gay'https://t.co/KPCGBHdR2W
Turkey’s top religious body is under fire for issuing a fatwa that it is permissible for adopted children to marry their adoptive parents as the country tries to recover from a devastating earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people.
As the world grieves over the loss of life and property after the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, a top national Israeli rabbi stirred controversy by describing the disaster as “divine justice.”
Shmuel Eliyahu, the Chief Rabbi of Safed in northern Israel and a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council, wrote an article for the Olam Katan, a conservative, religious, and right-wing weekly newsletter.
A Turkish woman’s parents and husband are now on trial for child and sexual abuse charges after she was forced to marry her husband when she was six years old, bringing attention to religious sects in the Muslim-majority country.
Turkey begins child abuse trial that puts spotlight on the country’s religious sects (from @AP) https://t.co/5EFUx1x8UN
A Turkish mufti (Muslim religious scholar) was under fire from Turkish Cypriots for suggesting that women should fulfill their duty to their husbands by accepting their “invitation to bed,” believing that his statement was a sign of imported encroachment of fundamentalist Islam in their secular community.
A sex cult leader has been sentenced to 8,658 years in prison for the charges of sexual assault and depriving someone of their liberty after a retrial in Turkey.
Turkey sentences sex cult leader Adnan Oktar to 8,658 years in prison after retrial https://t.co/AnX3LVzRXj
Turkey’s interior minister Süleyman Soylu describes LGBT rights as “terrorist propaganda” in a hateful speech to members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the northwestern province of Bilecik on November 12th.
A long-distance bus passenger in Turkey complained on Twitter that the driver refused to stop so he could pray, sparking a conversation about the majority Muslim nation and its secular constitution.
Turkey’s secularism debate ignites after bus driver refuses to stop for prayer https://t.co/pOnFUFZ2jj
On August 25, Turkish pop-star Gülşen was arrested, and she now faces charges of "inciting hatred and enmity" for a joke she made about religious schools in Turkey.
