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Turkey will stop sending imams to German mosques – here’s why this matters

  • Written by Brian Van Wyck, Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageThe imam of the Khadija Mosque, in the Pankow district of Berlin, talks to visitors.Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images

For decades, the Turkish government has sent imams to work in mosques across Germany. But the German Ministry of the Interior recently announced that it had reached an agreement with the Turkish government to put an...

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