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Interview: Lawyer Sebu Aslangil “election of new board members for the non-muslim community foundations critical for their livelihood.”
Mine Yıldırım (MY) – Can you tell us about the inability of non-Muslim community foundations’ to elect new board members? Sebu Aslangil (SA) – Community foundations are not foundations established under the Civil Code of the Turkish Republic, but are…
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Turkey to have its first Alevi high school
Minister of National Education Nabi Avcı pointed out that the Dost Eli Assistance Education and Culture Foundation had contributed much to the starting of the construction of the Hacı Bektaş-I Veli Anatolian High School and said he is very happy…
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Abolishment of gov’t regulation leaves minority foundations in limbo
The issue has been taken to the courts by four representatives of the Greek minority community, the Bugün daily reported on Wednesday. Katina Evdokiye Veriopoulos, Evdoksia Galanopoulo, Keti Vuças and Evangelos Mihailidis applied to the Bakırköy 7th Civil Court of…
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Ex-economy minister’s ‘Jews, Zoroastrians or atheists attacked gov’t’ remarks raise concerns
Representatives of Turkey’s Jewish Community have said former Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan’s remarks concerning “Jews, Zoroastrians and atheists” were anti-Semitic in nature and therefore constituted a crime against humanity, in a statement. “We have sadly learnt about Mersin Deputy Zafer…
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