Internet: M. Yildirim, Turkey: The Diyanet – The Elephant in Turkey’s Religious Freedom Room?, in www.forum18.org (4 may 2011)

TURKEY: THE DIYANET – THE ELEPHANT IN TURKEY'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ROOM?
By Mine Yildirim, Researcher at the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University
(4 May 2011)

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