American activist Shaun King and his wife announced their conversion to Islam on Monday, with the first day of the holy month of Ramadan in the Arab and Islamic worlds.

King and his wife appeared in a video clip he posted on Facebook reciting the Shahada taught to them by a Muslim imam, and he attached this to a post in which he talked about his conversion to Islam on Sunday evening, coinciding with the beginning of the month of fasting.

King said in his post: “My wife and I just returned home after the evening prayer at our mosque in the Dallas area, Texas, where we said the Shahada and converted to Islam to begin the month of Ramadan. It was a beautiful, powerful, and meaningful day for us that we will never forget.”

He added: “I will pray for you and ask you to continue to pray for us. We will begin fasting this morning with more than a billion Muslims around the world,” referring to the start of fasting on the first day of Ramadan.

Regarding what is happening in the Gaza Strip, King said: “My heart goes out to my dear friends in Gaza, and I am proud that we were able to provide meals tonight to thousands of families from northern to southern Gaza, and we will do so every day of the month of Ramadan.”

Shaun King is an American writer and activist and one of the prominent voices supporting the Palestinian cause on social media platforms.

Since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza on October 7, King has devoted his publications to sharing the atrocities committed by Israeli forces against the Palestinians in Gaza, and demanding an end to the war of extermination and the liberation of the Palestinian territories from occupation.

King announced late last December that the American “Meta” group had disabled his Instagram account because of his posts in support of the Palestinians.

Since October 7, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving tens of thousands of civilian victims, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, massive destruction of infrastructure, and a famine that has begun to afflict a number of areas, which led to Tel Aviv appearing before the International Court of Justice on charges of “genocide.” Collective.”

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Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Mehmet Özhaseki shared a video on his social media account about earthquake housing in a correctional area in Gaziantep that was affected by the February 6 earthquakes.

In the video, a citizen named Medina says, “God bless our state.” Drawing attention to his words, Özhaseki said, “Since the earthquakes of February 6 until today, the state and the nation have cooperated.

We have healed our wounds together, completing our strong and safe homes one by one and we hope that under the leadership of our people.

“Mr. President, we will make our disaster-hit cities more beautiful and disaster-resistant than before.”

From the February 6 earthquakes until today, the state and the nation have cooperated. We healed our wounds together and built our strong and safe homes one by one.

In the video, which includes the opinions of citizens affected by the earthquake, one of the earthquake victims said that while they believed they could create a new system in a period of up to 20 years.

They were surprised by the construction of homes within a year and said, “Homes have been built where people can lay their heads before the end of the year. God bless our state.”

One of the earthquake victims said:

“The houses are very beautiful. May God bless you a thousand times. Our condition did not make us miserable or humiliated.” In the video, other earthquake victims also expressed their relief because the houses were complete and beautiful.

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A Turkish court decided to imprison eight people suspected of carrying out provocative acts and incitement on social media platforms against refugees and irregular migrants.

A statement issued by the Ankara Police on Saturday said that the Security Branch Directorate, the Anti-Cybercrime Department, and the Intelligence Department began joint investigations against accounts that engage in provocations and incitement to hatred on social media sites.

The statement added that the security teams identified 27 accounts that shared posts urging mutual hatred on social media, including opposing refugees and immigrants and inciting hostility towards the Turks in front of public opinion.

The Turkish Public Prosecution opened an investigation against the suspects on charges of “inciting the people to hatred and hostility” and “spreading misleading information publicly.”

The statement indicated that the Public Prosecution interrogated the 27 suspects and decided to refer 23 of them to justice and released four.

In turn, the court decided to imprison eight of the detainees and release 15 of them on the condition that they be banned from traveling and placed under judicial supervision.

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The Turkish security authorities arrested 6 people for promoting terrorist organizations through social media in the northwestern province of Tekirdag.

Security sources said that the teams of the Tekirdag State Security Directorate began investigating 6 people who promoted terrorist organizations “PKK/BYG/BYD” through social media.

The sources added that the Security Directorate teams arrested the 6 suspects in an operation targeting their addresses.

The sources indicated that the security teams seized weapons, ammunition and narcotics from the addresses of the detainees.

The security teams transferred the detainees to the Public Prosecution Office, and in turn referred them to the judiciary.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Saturday of the danger of “digital fascism” on the right to access true and impartial news around the world.

This came in a video message addressed to the fourth meeting of ministers and high officials overseeing media in the Organization of Turkish States, held under the auspices of the Turkish Presidency’s Communication Department in Istanbul.

President Erdoğan noted that the issues of media, communication, social media and the fight against disinformation are of crucial importance from the political and social standpoints.

Erdogan referred to the operation launched by Azerbaijan in 2020 to liberate its lands occupied by Armenia in the Karabakh region.

He pointed out that the campaigns of lies and slanders (which promoted the lies of the Armenian side) during the Karabakh war showed once again the importance of these issues and the necessity of concerted efforts of the Turkish world in this context.

President Erdoğan pointed out that “the media, which is described as the fourth power in democracies, can turn into a tool of misleading in the hands of certain global forces and companies, and circles with bad intentions to distort the facts and obscure the truth.”

He added, “Digital fascism has become a threat today, impeding the right of billions of people to access true and impartial news.”

He pointed out that social media in particular poses great risks to societies in the absence of forms of censorship, including self-censorship, in these means and the lack of controls and moral values.

Erdogan stressed the increasing importance of seeking and defending the truth in those means in which lies, slander and distortion spread.

He pointed out that he considers the issue of communication to be of no less strategic importance than issues such as defense, security and health.

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