Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has slammed terror organizations including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Qaeda for "blatantly abusing Islam," stressing that these groups inflict a greater harm on the religion than its "most fierce enemy."

A Turkish imam who hit headlines as a "rocking imam" after co-founding a rock band has been denied permission to perform a concert in Portugal by Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet).

Turkey has retaliated to Sofia's decision to declare a Turkish diplomat "persona non grata" by expelling Bulgarian consul Zornitsa Petrova Apostolova, causing both diplomats to leave their posts in the latest indication of heightened tensions between the neighbors following Turkey's rift with Russia over the downing of a Russian jet on Nov. 24, 2015. 

Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has selected 100 successful students with disabilities for an Umrah visit, as part of a newly-launched program designed to "motivate" disabled students to perform their religious duties. 

Executives and representatives of Alevi associations in Turkey have submitted a legal complaint against the head of Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) for his recent remarks on not seeing cemevis, the Alevi places of worship, as equal to mosques. 

Saudi officials have recovered the bodies of four more Turkish victims of the hajj stampede on Sept. 12, bringing the total death toll of Turkish citizens to seven.

Four Turkish citizens were killed in the huge stampede outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, where some two million people are performing the annual hajj pilgrimage.
      
According to a statement by the Hajj Administrative Center in Mecca, five Turkish citizens are still considered missing.
      

At least 753 pilgrims were killed while 18 Turks remain missing after a human stampede outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, where some two million people are performing an annual hajj pilgrimage.

At least 753 pilgrims were killed while 18 Turks remain missing after a human stampede outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, where some two million people are performing an annual hajj pilgrimage.

The number of Turkish nationals killed when a crane collapsed on Sept. 11 at a mosque in Mecca teeming with Muslim pilgrims has risen to eight, Turkish authorities said Sept. 13, while Saudi Arabia's King Salman has vowed to find out what caused the incident.