The Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (DITIB) announced in Cologne on Friday that from 2025 onwards, 75 graduates of Islamic theology from Turkey will be trained in Germany every year. The young men are to receive intensive German and integration courses in Germany. After a total of two years of training, they will be required to work as imams in German DITIB mosques for at least 10 years. “We offer them the prospect of staying in Germany so that cooperation in the local communities can flourish,” said DITIB Secretary General Eyüp Kalyon. The new imam training programme is in…