Turkey's Chief Religious Authority To Establish Turkish - Islamic Studies Center In Washington

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Turkey`s religious affairs authority is set to establish a Turkish-Islamic studies center in Washington, D.C., the U.S. to promote Turkey`s "unique experience of Islamic culture," country`s highest Muslim cleric said Thursday.
"This is going to be the opening of a new and a promising era, a project to establish a Turkish-Islamic Culture and studies center," Ali Bardakoglu, head of Turkish Religious Affairs Directorate, told reporters in Washington, D.C..
"And it is a priority for us to explain to the American society Turkey`s unique experience of peaceful co-existing of different religions and its contemporary vision in religious services," Bardakoglu said.
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