The religious official claims homosexuality causes diseases, corrupts people. FMTNews
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday defended a top religious official who claimed homosexuality caused diseases, corrupted people and was condemned in Islamic teaching.
But Erdogan dismissed the criticism, saying “an attack against the Diyanet chief is an attack on the state” before adding: “What he said was totally right.” The spokesman for Erdogan’s ruling Islamic-rooted party, Omer Celik, insisted Erbas’ comments were consistent with democratic values. Diyanet was established in 1924 to oversee religion in secular Turkey after the abolition of the Islamic Caliphate in the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s collapse.
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