Turkish missionaries leave Crimea
Simferopol, August 11 (Navigator, Evgeniy Andreev) - Almost all Islamic teachers - citizens of Turkey - left Crimea.
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The Turks carried out their activities on the peninsula under the program of the Office of Religious Affairs of the Turkish Republic in Crimea for many years.
In a comment to the Crimean Tatar news agency QHA, the coordinator of the Turkish Department of Religious Affairs in Crimea, Mevlud Seyhan, noted that almost all clergy had to leave Crimea due to the fact that they could not renew the residence permit under which they had the right to live on the peninsula. There are only 5 teachers left in Crimea until the residence permit expires.
“Perhaps the program will continue and teachers will be able to return after these problems are resolved,” Seyhan suggested.
In turn, Deputy Crimean Mufti Esadullah Bairov noted that teachers will no longer be able to conduct their activities through the Office of Religious Affairs of the Turkish Republic in Crimea, since, according to the laws of the Russian Federation, “today a person with citizenship of another country does not have the right to conduct missionary activity."
“Each teacher stays until the end of his residence permit, leaves and cannot return again for the same mission. They can come as guests and the most they can do is be advisors. Or work in departments, but not directly conduct missionary activities,” explained the representative of the muftiate.
According to Esadullah Bairov, the issue of teachers staying in Crimea should be resolved at the state level - at the level of the ministries of the Russian Federation and Turkey.
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