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"We condemn the Quran reading and holding of prayers in Hagia Sophia, which was attended by the head of Turkey's Directorate for Religious Affairs and broadcast by Turkey's state television channel, IBNA reports.

The US State Department reacted to the provocative move by Turkish authorities to allow and support the reading of the Quran in the UNESCO designated site of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul during a press briefing, Thursday.

Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) Head Mehmet Görmez has condemned the beating of a student in a Quran class in the Marmara province of Sakarya on May, 2016, after footage showing a religion teacher beating the student went viral on social media.

A child should not be forced into marriage even if the parents give their consent to it, Turkey's top cleric said, referring to a verse in the Quran on the importance of marriage.

Some of the first visitors at a newly opened Quran exhibition on Oct. 22 said they hoped the display would help overcome prejudice and spread awareness about Islam.      

"This exhibit will really help bring people together and it represents how much Islam has to offer American culture," said Doug Kempner, a 26-year-old from Washington D.C.

Turkey's top cleric has said his Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) will print copies of the Quran "24/7" to send to Muslims in other countries.

Diyanet President Mehmet Görmez said they would print copies of the Quran at a press in Ankara's Sincan district.

A Quran manuscript, written by Mahmut Celaleddin in the second half of the 18th century and owned by Sultan Abdulaziz, was sold for 540,000 pounds at the Islamic artworks auction, which was held on Oct. 8 in London by Christie?s.  

As expected from a city founded by Amazons, the women of ?zmir are fighting violence against women through art, theater and a strong determination to take offenders to court.The tradition of talismanic shirts ? known as the Ottoman magic shirts- dates from Turkey?s shamanist past.

A Sofia Deputy Mayor has said disciplinary proceedings have been launched against the principal of a local kindergarten over so-called "Quranic verses".

What may be the world?s oldest Quran fragments have been found by the University of Birmingham, the BBC has reported.

Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest currently in existence.

The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognized in the university?s library for almost a century.