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Germany to stop accepting imams trained in Turkey
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https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-stop-accepting-imams-trained-in-turkey/a-67722838
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Under a new agreement between the ministry, Turkish religious authority Diyanet and Turkish-Islamic umbrella group DITIB, about 100 imams are to be trained each year in the western town of Dahlem.
“We need religious leader who speak our language, know our country and stand up for our values,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in a statement.
A branch of the Presidency of Religious Affairs in Ankara, DITIB is the largest Islamic association in Germany but it has been accused of acting as an extended arm of the Turkish government.
The latest DITIB controversy came when an Afghan Taliban member spoke at one of the organization’s mosques in the western city of Cologne last month.
In 2017, German officials called on DITIB to undertake fundamental reforms following allegations that imams sent by Diyanet had spied on behalf of Ankara in the wake of the failed coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
Former Chancellor Angela Merkel first spoke in favor of training imams on German soil in 2018, telling parliament that it “will make us more independent and is necessary for the future.”
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