ANKARA (AA) – Greek authorities have turned the Murat Reis Complex, a spiritual center for Muslim Turks living on Rhodes Island, into a music facility. The center comprises a mosque, a dervish lodge, and a cemetery for soldiers. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Neval Konuk, a lecturer at Istanbul-based Marmara University’s Faculty of Architec...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk has demanded the world football governing body remove Iran from the forthcoming World Cup in Qatar, and include Ukraine instead. “Ukraine should be at the World Cup. Iran deserves no place there!” Sergei Palkin, the club’s CEO, said in a statement on Twitter. “While...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – A Spanish court sentenced a man whom the ISIS told to carry out a drone attack on Barcelona’s Camp Nou football stadium to three years behind bars on Monday. Police arrested Mohammed Yassi Amrani in May 2020, during the depths of Spain’s strict COVID-19 lockdown. Spain’s Interior Ministry said he was […]
Rishi Sunak became the United Kingdom’s first Hindu prime minister on Monday. He is also the first person of color to hold the office. Sunak’s appointment comes amid political turmoil after the forced departure of his predecessors Boris Johnson and Liz Truss in less than two months. The British empire once spanned nations across Asia […...
Dutch police on Sunday prevented a planned demonstration of the far-right Islamophobic group Pegida, which sought to burn a copy of the Quran at The Hague. This was a day after police also arrested a leader of the group and ended its planned Quran burning rally in the city Rotterdam before it started. A small […]
LONDON (AA) – Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to become the UK’s first British Asian prime minister after winning the Tory leadership race on Monday, as Penny Mordaunt dropped out of the race minutes before the candidacy deadline. Sir Graham Brady, the 1922 Committee head, confirmed in a short statement that Sunak became the new lea...
PARIS, France (AA) – Although the subject gets little media coverage, the problem of food in French school cafeterias is a headache for many parents of Muslim students. Citing their version of secularism, some mayors have decided not to offer alternative menus in school cafeterias. This is the case in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, a commune on th...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AA) – Dutch police on Saturday arrested a leader of far-right Islamophobic group Pegida, which ended the planned Quran burning rally of the group in Rotterdam before it started. Anti-Islam movement Pegida earlier announced that they would gather in the city center of Rotterdam on Saturday to burn a copy of Quran, Muslim...
PARIS (AA) – Tears of the Seine, an animated short film, has received attention in France and globally. The film has won a bronze medal at the Student Oscars in Los Angeles. It sheds light on the bloody police crackdown on the demonstration by Algerians in Paris on Oct. 17, 1961, in which hundreds of […]
BERLIN (AA) – Germany on Friday called on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb politicians to end their secessionist policies, and pave the way for the country’s EU membership. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told her counterparts, during a Western Balkans conference in Berlin, that Germany strongly supports Bosnia and Herzegovina’s EU persp...
