[1] The imams and the religious teachers, officially classified as civil servants of the Turkish state, are trained in Ankara and sent to Germany from Turkey.

Homepages of local DİTİB chapters have featured anti-Christian, antisemitic and anti-Western hate speech.

The local associations are registered independently for legal and financial purposes, but share the goals and principles of DİTİB as their foundation.

[citation needed] In 2018, Federal Ministry of the Interior cut all funds after DİTİB had been involved in a number of controversies, such as refusing to take part in a Cologne anti-terror march in 2017.

Participants who gave speeches included the Green Party politician Claudia Roth, Bavaria's Interior Minister Günther Beckstein and Fritz Behrens.