HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 28, 2023

@IreneMoews

#DEpol #Turkey
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Me, too.

The failure in #Germany is similar to the one in the #US: #AbsoluteFreeSpeech bought by #plutocrats.

Germany 🇩🇪 should never have permitted the #Turkish government to invest millions of euros in so many mosques 🕌 in the country, thus mostly controlling its #imams and their political views. The #Türkisch-Islamische Union der Anstalt für Religion e. V. (#Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam Birliği), short #DİTİB (1) has become...

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https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrkisch-Islamische_Union_der_Anstalt_f%C3%BCr_Religion

Türkisch-Islamische Union der Anstalt für Religion – Wikipedia

Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 28, 2023

@IreneMoews

#DEpol #Turkey #Türkiye #Religion

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...the largest #Sunni-#Islamic (أهل السنة) group in #Germany.

#DİTİB, in turn, is lead and controlled by The #Directorate of Religious Affairs in #Turkey (#Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı)(2).

Its leader is seen as the highest religious authority by most #Turkish citizens:

"The...

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Türkisch-Islamische Union der Anstalt für Religion – Wikipedia

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@IreneMoews

#DEpol #Turkey #Türkiye #Religion

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"...President of the #Directorate of Religious Affairs is considered the Grand Mufti of #Turkey."(3)

And, for some years now, the Directorate has become 👉directly subordinate to the #Turkish President, Recep Tayyip #Erdoğan👈.

This is a democratic disaster...

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https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrkisch-Islamische_Union_der_Anstalt_f%C3%BCr_Religion

Türkisch-Islamische Union der Anstalt für Religion – Wikipedia

May 28, 2023 at 10:08amTusky
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 28, 2023

@IreneMoews

#DEpol #Turkey #Türkiye #Religion

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...for #Turkey, detrimental for #Germany's democratic process and similar in nature to the fatal #CitizensUnitedVsFEC #SCOTUS decision:

"World events do not occur by accident.
They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the #PurseStrings. —

#DenisHealey, longest-serving #UK Defence Secretary.

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