Erdogan’s Mufti: Turkish version of Qaradawi
Monday 13/May/2019 - 03:00 PM
Khairuddin Karaman
Like Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the
former head of the so-called World Union of Muslim Scholars, Khairuddin
Karaman, known for his close proximity to Turkey's ruling AK Party, went into
fame and has taken advantage of religion to justify corruption and the
turbulence of Turkish politics.
Karaman is known in the media as the "Mufti of Erdogan". Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan uses him to attack his so-called enemies, both
within the opposition and abroad, against his attempts to expand in the Middle
East.
Karaman has several slips, most recently his attack on a number of Arab
countries, which deal with Erdogan's plans in the Arab region. It came to
describe Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, in an article in the newspaper Yeni
Shafak which is affiliated to the Turkish pro-government on May 5, that they
are "the devil's triangle."
Erdogan’s Mufti is 84 years old and he is the Turkish version of Al-Qaradawi.
He was elected vice-president of the World Union of Muslim Scholars in Turkey
in November 2018. Karaman described the union as an organization that seeks to
liberate Muslims in Islamic countries from customers and enemies of Islam.
Karaman is a strong supporter of the Erdogan regime. He is the mouthpiece of
the ruling regime and the instigator of violence. In an article in March 2017,
he referred to the need to manufacture and possess weapons of mass destruction,
including nuclear weapons.
The Mufti of Erdogan disagrees with the fatwas on the size of the ruling party,
as well as provoking the controversy with his pathetic fatwas. He criticized
the Turkish government with an article in January 2015 at an unusual pace.
He quickly retracted this in February of the same year. Erdogan's son was the
head of a university in Istanbul, and the following week came out with an
abnormal fatwa, claiming that the description of crimes of corruption by theft
is a lie.
