Combating Intolerance News Today

A senior Turkish ambassador has been appointed special envoy for combating intolerance and Islamophobia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

A former Turkish intelligence officer who admitted to the illegal trafficking of arms and jihadist fighters to Syria by Turkeys National Intelligence Organization (MIT) was appointed to a senior position at the Organization for Security and Co-operation

The most recent edition of an annual report on Islamophobia in Europe, produced with the backing of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, indicates that Ankara has found a group of American and European scholars and activists willing to promote

“In one severe abuse of freedom
of religion, religious freedom has been amalgamated with political strategies or policies of protecting the reputation of religions against defamation."