Turkish Muslim clerics issue fatwa against tattoos

(AGI) Ankara, Jan 9 - Turkey's top religious body has urgedMuslims with tattoos to either remove them or at least repentfor their sin. The first to criticise the spread of tattoos asa fashion statement among Turkey's youth was President RecepTayyip Erdogan, who labelled them as "immoral". "A person whohas tattoo on his/her body should erase it, if possible. He/sheshould repent to God if the tattoo cannot be erased," theReligious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) said in its fatwa. "Ourprophet has said 'Allah curses the people who change theirshape created by God', be it a woman with tattoos or someonewho removes hair from their face or eyebrows," it added. (AGI).