Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs

The Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs Association ( Turkish Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam BİRLİGİ, abbreviated DİTİB ) is a since July 5, 1984 the Cologne District Court registered association. It is under the permanent direction, control and supervision of the State Bureau of Religious Affairs of Turkey in Ankara, which is affiliated to the Turkish Prime Minister Office. The DİTİB operates as a nationwide umbrella organization for the coordination of religious, social and cultural activities of the connected Turkish-Islamic mosque communities. The Association is based in Cologne- Ehrenfeld. He is a founding member of the Coordination Council of Muslims.

Organizational structure

Germany

DİTİB is recognized as a member of the group of institutions and facilities with religious and social objectives in the Federal Republic of Germany. DİTİB represents an understanding of Islam that has come to terms with the Turkish version of secularism. Among the statutes purposes of the organization include the religious care, education and training for living in Germany Turkish Muslims, installation and maintenance of prayer and teaching facilities and the training of lay preachers, as well as the organization of social and cultural activities and language courses as well as the implementation of vocational training programs. DİTİB also conducts a funeral fund for the financing and organization of the transfer and burial of deceased Turkish Muslims in Turkey.

In the founding year 1984 230 clubs were connected, in 2002 there were over 770 mosque associations, each with approximately 130 to 150 members, in 2005 there were 870 clubs according to the association, in 2007 about 880 and in 2014 896 clubs. The connected local communities are based mostly in major West German cities and operate there mosques. You are legally and economically independent registered associations that pursue the principles and statutory purposes of DİTİB and recognize the DİTİB as an umbrella organization. However, many affiliates go into a greater dependence on DİTİB headquarters by this override their property. In 2001, worn by Muslim communities 55 of 66 Mosque new building projects in Germany, who belonged to the DİTİB.

DİTİB regulates the deployment of full-time Hoxha ( example: church leaders and prayer leaders ) from Turkey, which for around four years to come as civil servants in the Federal Republic and paid by the respective consulate and be supervised. There is criticism, " that this prayer leaders often neither the exact circumstances of the Turks in Germany know yet mastered the German language sufficiently ."

Austria

In Austria, the organization is known as " Turkish Islamic Union for Cultural and Social Cooperation in Austria " under the symbol " ATIB " known ( Atib however, are designated in Germany another mosque Association ). It was founded in 1990 with 31 member clubs, and today comprises 59 member clubs.

Current

Under the presidency of Ridvan Cakir 2003-2007 the DİTİB paid special attention to their appearance than ready integration factor in the German society. She was one of the initiators of the mass event "Together for peace and against terrorism." At this demonstration in Cologne on 21 November 2004 took part in over 20,000 Muslims. Among the guest speakers were the Green Party politician Claudia Roth, the Bavarian Interior Minister and the North Rhine -Westphalian stone Interior Minister Fritz Behrens. The aim of the event was to condemn the use of violence in the name of Islam.

The organization called for protest against the Tatort episode " Who deserves honor " on, felt defamed by themselves Alevi primarily Muslims in Germany.

From April 2007 to 2010 was Sadi Arslan, Counsellor at the Turkish Embassy, Mr. Chairman. Secretary General Ali Ihsan was Ünlü. The first time was chosen with Ayten Kılıçarslan a woman in the DİTİB board and immediately determined as Deputy Secretary General. However, you already retired again in 2009 from the Board.

Since 2012, the sociologist of religion Izzet He is Chairman of the Board.

The DİTİB maintains a separate department for Interreligious Dialogue. Their leader, Bekir Alboga, was from 1 October 2007 to 31 March 2008 Chairman of the Coordination Council of Muslims in Germany.

Since November 2009, the already longer planned, controversial in the run-up construction of a new central mosque is being implemented at the site of the headquarters of Germany DİTİB in the Ehrenfeld district of Cologne. Another central mosque is built in the district of Essen Altendorf. The topping-out ceremonies of both mosques were celebrated in 2011 and 2012 respectively.

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg was the first state concluded a treaty among others, the DİTİB as part of its international law subject. Should be regulated Holidays and certain rights of the Islamic minority in Hamburg. Furthermore, the coexistence of religion and religious education should be promoted.

Critique of binding to Turkey

Levent Tezcan ( University of Bielefeld) criticized, one of the stated goals, " the cultivation of national identity among Turkish immigrants ," colliding with the ideas of one Euro -Islam 'or' German Islam ', which is to become detached from the culture of origin. The former speaker of the Working Group on Migration and integration of the SPD, Lale Akgun, criticized the goal of cultivating tradition as integration enemy " prompt, segregate ". The writer Ralph Giordano believes the DİTİB was an unsuitable developers for mosques in Germany, in so far as it 'll go you rather to the preservation of Turkishness as to integrate into German society. The DİTİB deny the genocide of the Armenians and replace religion by ultra- patriotism.

The journalist Jörg Lau criticized the " close to the Turkish state," the DİTİB was a " long arm Erdogan ". Lale Akgun threw the DİTİB " lust for power " and " reactionary attitudes " before. As an offshoot of the Turkish state-owned religious authority, it stresses that DİTİB not about religion, but about the " authority to interpret the social". As an example, Akgun referred to a later removed from the Internet Guide to the Turkish authority Diyanet for " good and exemplary Muslim women," which had been included " misogynistic rules " such as the exclusive travel ban on women. Even after he was declared to have withdrawn it, the DİTİB sales continue to Islam a primer entitled " Allowed and Verwehrtes " of the Turkish Islamic scholar Hayrettin Karaman in which the beating of wives was presented as adequate behavior.

Object of criticism is the recruitment of imams from Turkey, whose lack of language skills and limited service period, which prevent the Imams mind to familiarize yourself with the cultural practices in the respective countries. The newly designed imam training at the Universities of Münster, Osnabrück and Tübingen rejected the DİTİB.

The Turkologin Ursula winder - Stegemann warned that it is strange that the DİTİB so many mosques in this country " after calling warlord such as Konstantin Opel Conqueror Mehmed II ".

The then President of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany Wolfgang Huber and Islam critic Kelek threw the Association in 2007 on the occasion of the building of mosques in Germany prior to applying double standards. In Germany they call freedom of religion for Muslims and build mosques in Turkey, however, deny the same authority Turkish Christians and Turkish Alevis the building of churches and full religious freedom.