Turkish students joined online campaigns demanding Jedi and Buddhist temples also be built after authorities said mosques would be built on university campuses.

Facebook has succumbed to Turkey’s authoritarian threats yet again, deleting over a thousand pages that carried content deemed offensive to Muslims.

Turkey’s atheist community recently joined forces with the country’s religious minorities to protest compulsory religious education in schools.

Turkey recently allowed its minority Syriac Christians to build a new church for the first time since the Ottoman Empire’s fall in 1923.

Ateizm Dernegi filed a lawsuit against Islamic scholar Nihat Hatipoglu saying he had infringed upon the rights of atheists by blaming them for revering Satan.