Turkish Quran Sent to Ali Erbaş from the Victory Party

Diyanet Affairs President Ali Erbaş, who accompanied AKP Chairman and President Erdoğan on his visit to Iraq, became a topic of discussion after he failed to understand a question asked in Arabic by a Rudaw reporter and requested it be translated into Turkish. Following these images, the Victory Party (Zafer Partisi) carried out an interesting protest.

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Turkish Quran Sent to Ali Erbaş from the Victory Party

In the biography of Ali Erbaş on the Diyanet Affairs website, it is stated that he has a good command of Arabic and French.

While the images in question caused a stir on the Turkish agenda, the Istanbul Provincial Presidency of the Victory Party announced in a post on its social media account X that they had sent a Turkish translation of the Quran to Diyanet Affairs President Ali Erbaş.

The Victory Party also tagged Ümit Özdağ and Diyanet Affairs President Ali Erbaş in their post.

The post stated, "We sent a Turkish Quran to the address of Diyanet Affairs President Ali Erbaş, who does not know Arabic, so that he can understand what he reads."

The Victory Party Istanbul Provincial Presidency, in a comment under their post, used the phrase, "We apologize, Ali Erbaş, we did not know the address of your house in London. We sent it to your workplace," thereby making a reference to the house Erbaş owns in London.

It was also noted that the Victory Party sent Diyanet Affairs President Ali Erbaş the Quran that Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had commissioned Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır to interpret.