Turkey needs to ensure full respect for all property rights, including those of non-Muslim religious communities.

The Sandford School of Public Policy report recommends the following actions: encouraging political mobilization of Muslims by engaging them with public officials; publicly promoting and referencing community denunciations of violence; reinforcing self- policing by improving the relationship between law enforcement and Muslim communities; assisting community-building efforts through youth and childcare facilities, health clinics, and language training; promoting outreach and collaboration of social service agencies with communities, such as health care and education; supporting enhanced religious literacy, which reinforces the observation that strict religious training reduces the likelihood of radicalization into violence; and incre ...[+++]asing civil rights enforcement to address the suspicions many Muslims have towards the government.

Under family law, any Muslim can marry any Christian, but the Christian must convert to Islam and must divorce and consider her husband as apostate.

A legal framework in line with the ECHR has yet to be established, so that all non-Muslim religious communities and Alevi community can function without undue constraints, including the training of clergy.

You may be interested to know that he has also served at the University of Exeter in England, with a PhD in Islamic Law, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies.

He has covered in his publications a wide range of topics, from the food laws of the Koran to the idea of civil disobedience in Islamic law, from the controversy and the penalty for adultery in classical Islamic law to population policy in Islam, and to jihad in Islam, of course a topic of high interest.