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Researchers
and academics recently gathered in Istanbul for
discussing a new citizenship law in India ,
which has been criticized for discriminating against Muslims and strengthening Islamophobia , Turkey
South Asia
Strategic Research Center (GASAM), a think tank founded by Turkish Islamist Ali
Şahin, a Turkish Islamist and deputy minister for European Affairs on Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s cabinet, organized by the roundtable
discussion was organised on Wednesday, January 29.
Mehmet
Özay, an academic at Istanbul ’s Ibn Haldun University
and one of the speakers at the discussion, said that India
"Perhaps
today we are witnessing a process in which India
The
Citizenship Amendment Act, which was approved on December 12 by the Indian
Parliament, fast-tracks Indian citizenship for non-Muslim minorities from three
neighboring countries, Pakistan ,
Afghanistan and Bangladesh
Protesters
across India
Nedim
Çavdari, a researcher and Istanbul-based medical doctor who is originally from
Kashmir, said the law had been introduced to clean up Muslim culture from India
“You can
stay as a Muslim there, but you have to live Hindu culture socially,” he said.