Hurriyet Daily News reported that the highest leader recommended that Islamic preachers in Turkey be more careful when speaking of or about women.
Turkish marriage law now allows Muslim clerics to conduct civil marriages; it’s a blow to women’s rights and secularism, activists say.
The ‘controversial’ “Origin of Life and Evolution” section will be removed from biology classes in high schools in Turkey starting in 2019.
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.
