Muslim prayers have been held in the iconic Hagia Sophia for the first time in 86 years after the reconversion of the Istanbul landmark into a mosque earlier this month. The Friday prayers took place [ More … ]
Turkey’s Opposition Nationalist Movement Party Leader Devlet Bahçeli says Saudi Arabia, UAE are backstabbing Muslims Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahçeli on Tuesday slammed Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, accusing them of backstabbing [ More … ]
Thousands of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Israel prayed at Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid heightened [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* History is not a scene which conveys past events being as they are today. Historical knowledge is a knowledge that always glides through present events, that is, moreover, remembered through present interests [ More … ]
BY: EREN EGEHAN BAĞIŞ* The true representatives of Islam, a religion of peace that does not order to kill innocent people or organize terror attacks, wholeheartedly condemns Daesh as well as other blood-thirsty groups around [ More … ]
BY: İBRAHIM KALIN* As we begin the month of Ramadan, let’s hope and pray that our fasting and prayers reach the depths of our souls and spirits Today is the beginning of the holy month of [ More … ]
US President Donald Trump ‘will urge unity’ between the world’s major faiths on an ambitious first foreign trip that will take him to Saudi Arabia, the Vatican and Jerusalem. US President Donald Trump will give [ More … ]
BY: HATEM BAZIAN* It is high time for a courageous political, social, and economic faith-based coalition between American Muslims and Jews (who are aware of the danger of Zionism) to be started in the U.S. The [ More … ]
Over the past years, halal tourism options in Turkey have been attracting tourists from Muslim countries around the world. The Turkish Standards Institution has introduced a set of new standards for hotels to better serve [ More … ]
BY: Merve Şebnem Oruç Donald Trump, who took over the U.S. presidency on Jan. 20, was quick to start erasing his predecessor Barack Obama’s legacy. Trump also underwent the most turbulent period in the first week [ More … ]
A senior Turkish government official has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s imposition of a ban on the nationals of seven Muslim countries and called Washington to correct the “wrongful measure.” “Unfortunately, I am of the [ More … ]
BY: İLNUR ÇEVIK* Crucial executive orders signed by President Donald Trump have been issued one after another since the weekend. The president has shelved Obamacare, he has pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and [ More … ]
BY: HATEM BAZIAN* Having a differing point of view should be grounded in mercy rather than in an absolutist and survival of the fittest type of logic that should be seen and treated as calamity to [ More … ]
By: İLNUR ÇEVIK* The Presidency of Religious Affairs (DİB) has been providing religious staff for Turks in Europe for four decades, both providing proper religious services for our countrymen across the continent and preventing extremist religious [ More … ]
– Speaking to Anadolu Agency, head of Muslim Scholars’ Union decries ‘ferocity’ of Syrian regime and its allies – Muslims around the world should come to the aid of their brothers and sisters in the [ More … ]
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