Turkish President Recep Erdogan called childless women deficient and urged devout Muslims to reject contraception so they can have more children.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu recently said that the country’s new constitution would feature the principle of secularism.
Leaders from the world’s largest Muslim countries met at a summit last month, calling on adherents of Islam to take a stand against terror attacks.
A young imam in Turkey’s capital city opened the doors of his mosque for stray cats to seek shelter in this winter.
Head of Turkey’s state-operated Presidency of Religious Affairs Mehmet Gormez recently called for sectarian unity between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Turkey’s renowned modern pianist, Fazil Say, (convicted of blasphemy two years ago), was recently awarded the 2015 International Secularism Prize.
A Muslim televangelist in Turkey recently said that men who masturbate would find their hands pregnant in the afterlife demanding justice.
Turkish students joined online campaigns demanding Jedi and Buddhist temples also be built after authorities said mosques would be built on university campuses.
The top religious affairs council in Turkey called for surrogate motherhood to be banned because it contains elements of adultery.
Facebook has succumbed to Turkey’s authoritarian threats yet again, deleting over a thousand pages that carried content deemed offensive to Muslims.