Germany to slash funding for Islamic organization DITIB

[Gorgus]

[QUOTE]Berlin plans to cut project funding for the Turkish Islamic organization DITIB by about 80 percent, according to a newspaper report. DITIB has been criticized for having close ties to the Turkish government.

Despite concerns over the Turkish Islamic organization DITIB's relationship with Ankara, the German government will continue to provide the organization funds for projects, according to a newspaper report on Thursday.
DITIB, however, will be given significantly less money than in previous years, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper reported, citing an Interior Ministry response to an inquiry from the Greens.

Berlin plans to give the Turkish-Islamic union €297,500 euros ($349,800) for projects in 2018 — about 20 percent of what DITIB received in 2017 and less than 10 percent of what it was given in 2016.
For 2017, the year following the failed military coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, Berlin gave DITIB €1.47 million in funding.
The German government gave the organization much more money in 2016 — to the tune of €3.27 million — for projects to help refugees.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-slash-funding-for-islamic-organization-ditib/a-40810472[/url]

[Killuah]

Wouldn't it be kind of smarter to keep funding but tie it to more controls over what's done with it?
I mean this way they will just be even more under the control of foreign powers.
Cutting the funding will not make the organizations, their structures and the need for organizations away.

Seems like it's a good inention with the wrong approach.

[Mifil]

And German-Turkish relations are getting worse and worse...
Thanks to Sultan Wannabe Erdogan.