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Freedom of Belief Initiative in Türkiye started a campaign where they say "our lesson is not religion, but religions and beliefs."

The ruling comes after a 13-year long legal struggle of a family who wanted their child exempted from religion classes.

Atheism Association has launched signature campaign for recognition of legal status of atheists and “Atheism not to be used as means of degradation”.

In Turkey section of International Religious Freedom report by the U.S., discrimination against Alewis and hate speech against Jews emphasized.

In the latest report of Norway Helsinki Committee Freedom of Belief Initiative, it has been drawn attention to many problems ranging from distribution of public sources to djemevis not being recognized as sanctuary, from mandatory religious courses to the right to conscientious objection.

Alevite organizations will organize an activity in Izmir on October 9 to protest the mandatory religion courses and submit their petition about the problem to the Education Directorship of the Torbali District.

In the sixth hearing of the murder trial in Malatya yesterday, Cuma Özdemir, Abuzer Yıldırım and Salih Gürler blamed Emre Günaydın as the planner of the whole incident. Günaydın tried to throw off the responsibility for the murders.

None of the suspects confess to the Malatya murders of the three Protestans. The court completes the interrogation of the arrested suspect Gürler, who also blames Günaydın. The Court will hear the other three arrested suspects.