Since 2004 he has been a doctorate student in Canon Law at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of Ovidius University, Constanţa, under the scientific guidance of Fr.
The Sura-Islam (Synodal Council) consists of 15 clerics, 8 laymen, the outgoing mufti and the head of the Kemal Atatürk Theological High School.
He defeated Resul Maarem, Osman Negeat, Halil Ismeat and Bagâş Sanghirai, who as the outgoing mufti could run an unlimited number of times.
959 of October 5, issued by the President of Romania and published in Monitorul Oficial (causing the decree to take effect) the next day.
At the time, he also revealed his plans to institute some change in the Muftiate operates, calling for all major decisions to be taken only after consultations with a Synodal Council consisting of imams, representatives of Turkish and Tatar political parties, as well as other important Romanian Muslim personalities.
[3] In April 2007, Murat Yusuf caused controversy after asking the Ministry of Education not to recognize the graduation diplomas for a number of Romanian Muslims who had received theological training in certain institutions (located in, among other countries, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sudan, Jordan and Egypt).
[4] He justified the measure by arguing that the young men had studied "a dangerous radical [form of] Islam", and contended that they were working "in certain foundations, assisted by Arab embassies, [and] listed as organizations suspected of producing terrorist propaganda, under surveillance by the Romanian intelligence services".