Diyanet Isleri Baskanligi Review - Halal Finance Products

The Presidency of Religious Affairs (established 1924) answers inheritance questions through its Din Isleri Yuksek Kurulu, the standing board of senior scholars whose rulings guide Turkey's official religious services. For estate matters the practically important outputs are: the faraid share tables for common family configurations; the rule that a Muslim may bequeath at most one third to non-heirs (with more requiring heir consent); and the position that heirs may, after death, voluntarily redistribute an estate according to Islamic shares even though civil law divided it differently.

That last ruling is the linchpin of Muslim estate planning in Turkey. Because the Civil Code's reserved shares override faraid-patterned wills, the only reliable path to Islamic distribution is unanimous heir agreement under TMK 676, and Diyanet's endorsement of voluntary redistribution gives families the religious basis to organize it. The fatwa service (Alo 190 line, written applications, mufti offices) is how households get case-specific answers: blended families, converts, missing heirs, debts and mahr all generate real questions the published tables do not cover.

We list this as an estate planning service deliberately: it is free, live, nationwide, and it is what actually exists in Turkey in place of the commercial Islamic will industry found in other markets.