US EditionTurkey’s religious authority granted power to censor, destroy ‘improper’ Quran translations - Turkish Minute
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The Turkish parliament has passed a bill that makes the Turkish religious office the censorship authority.
The Turkish religious authority always gets new competences. Now it should be able to ban Koran translations that are not acceptable to it.
Turkey’s religious authority granted power to censor, destroy ‘improper’ Quran translations - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Turkey’s top religious authority, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), has been granted sweeping new powers to oversee religious content and censor Quran translations it deems “inappropriate,” under a new law that came into effect on Wednesday, Turkish Minute reported. Published in the Official Gazette, the legislation allows the Diyanet’s High Council of Religious Affairs to review Quran interpretations and other religious publicatio…
Turkey’s religious authority granted power to censor, destroy ‘improper’ Quran translations - Turkish Minute
Turkey’s top religious authority, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), has been granted sweeping new powers to oversee religious content and censor Quran translations it deems “inappropriate,” under a new law that came into effect on Wednesday, BBC Turkish reported.
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