President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has shown support to the head of the country’s top religious body who stirred controversy after claiming that homosexuality and fornication were the “causes” of diseases. “The Presidency of Religious Affairs [Diyanet] is a state institution.
As you know, its head made a statement. With this statement, he fulfilled his job in line with his faith and scholarship. What he said was totally right,” Erdoğan said after a cabinet meeting late April 27.