BERLIN (AA) – Germany’s largest mosque in Cologne broadcast the Muslim call to prayer over its loudspeakers for the first time on Friday. “This a sign that Muslims are at home here,” Abdurrahman Atasoy, the secretary general of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) told reporters, and thanked the city admini...
BRUSSELS (AA) – A 20-month-old refugee baby has become the latest victim of the racism and mismanagement by Belgian authorities in processing applications for asylum seekers. The baby, who was accompanied by her mother, spent the night on the streets as they waited outside the Belgian Federal Asylum Seeker Reception Agency (Fedasil) to s...
ANKARA, BELGRADE (AA) – The European Commission has recommended that candidate status be granted to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Addressing the European Parliament on Wednesday, Oliver Varhelyi, the European commissioner for neighborhood and enlargement, unveiled the bloc’s 2022 Enlargement Package. Varhelyi said the Balkan country has ...
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AA) – Ankara welcomes the US Senate’s removal of two provisions that were set to restrict the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Türkiye, the presidential spokesman has said. “(This is) something in our favor. We see this as a positive step for Türkiye,” Ibrahim Kalin told reporters in the Kazakh capital A...
ANKARA (AA) – The European Commission on Wednesday released its annual report on EU candidate country Türkiye as part of its 2022 Enlargement Package. The package, which includes the EU Commission’s latest evaluations on candidate countries Türkiye, Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo, was announced...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution condemning Russia’s illegal annexation of four regions of eastern Ukraine, with 143 states voting in favor. The move by the General Assembly came after the world body convened an emergency session Monday to discuss Moscow-backed referendums to annex Donetsk, Luh...
Algiers, Algeria (AFP): The European Union’s energy commissioner has hailed a “long-term strategic partnership” with Algeria as the bloc turns to Africa’s biggest gas exporter to fill a gap left by Russian supplies. “As the relationship with Russia, so far EU’s biggest gas supplier, is irreversibly broken, w...
ISTANBUL (AA) – High level officials from the Council of Europe (CoE) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have agreed to take concrete steps to combat rising anti-Muslim racism in Europe. Daniel Holtgen, CoE’s special representative on antisemitic, anti-Muslim and other forms of religious intolerance...
ANKARA (AA) – President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, is set to visit Russia on Tuesday for talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, according to the state news agency WAM. Bin Zayed will be the first Arab leader to visit Russia since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in […]
LONDON (AA) – Hate crimes in the UK are on the rise because the government “tends to try to appease the far right by adopting some of their positions,” according to a prominent Muslim scholar. Anas Altikriti, CEO of Cordoba Foundation, told Anadolu Agency that the British Muslim community has sensed that “there is a […]
