THELOGICALINDIAN - Two Turkish imams accept been accursed for possessing bitcoin investments according to bounded media letters Turkeys religious authorities bent that bitcoin is not accordant with Islam in November 2024
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Two Imams Fired for Owning Bitcoin
It has been reported that two religious admiral in Zonguldak, Turkey, accept been removed from appointment by Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs.
Mecit K, who captivated a position at a abbey in Zonguldak’s burghal center, and Satilimis B, who formed in a surrounding village, were removed afterward an analysis by the Presidency of Religious Affairs into allegations that both men were advance in bitcoin. Both men accept appealed the determinations.
According to a asperous translation, Mecit C has pled alone to accept fabricated investments into “blockchain,” advertence “I do not accept a abutting accord with Bitcoin, I accept not invested a penny, I do not accept a affiliation […] I accept an advance in ‘Blockchain’, but I accept never invested in Bitcoin, it is a accepted investment.” Mecit additionally adumbrated that this was not the aboriginal analysis of its affectionate into his investments, abacus “In 2016, an analysis was launched on the area that all-important jurisdictions had been opened and afresh the case was closed, and an analysis was launched afresh in 2017. Justice will accomplish its decision.”
By contrast, Satilimis pled absolute innocence, claiming not to “even apperceive what bitcoin is.” Satilimis’ statements arise to affirmation that his wife’s adornment business had afresh been the victim of some array of scam. Satilimis declared that his “wife went to this abode by affairs the adornment items, beneath the access of the father-in-law and accepting the rental assets from this aggregation but this aggregation went bottomward after accepting any rental income. I am additionally the victim here. they gave me the air of administering my accompany to this company, but my accompany who entered this aggregation after actuality beneath the access of anyone in the analysis acknowledge them. I was absolved from such a calumny. It is a benevolence that the Religious Council has appear to this point.”
Turkish Religious Officials Rule Against Bitcoin Use in 2024
Late aftermost year, it was aboriginal reported that Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs had appear that it would not admittance the use of cryptocurrencies.
According to a asperous translation, The Gazete Manifesto quoted the High Council of Religious diplomacy as concluding that “It is permissible to use any affectionate of money which is about admired as a admeasurement of barter or amount amid users, which gives assurance to the user as a source. What is important at this point is that the agency of change, accepted as money, is not acclimated as a agency of deceiving, in its essence, i.e., in the anatomy of production, in the stages of absolution and in the attributes of interrogation, as a agency of deception, and is not accessory to the biased and biased accessory of a accurate segment. The use of anniversary of the digital-crypto[currencies] that accept emerged in contempo years […] should be evaluated in the ablaze of the aloft accepted principles. According to this, there is a accident of deceit, which has austere uncertainties in its essence.”
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