Austria: Turkish-Aligned Mosques in Vienna Accused of Embezzlement of Donations for Sex Parties

In Vienna, there is a scandal brewing concerning certain imams connected to mosques aligned to the Turkish government agency, Diyanet, which oversees mosques in Europe frequented by the Turkish diaspora. It is alleged that certain imams and other mosque leaders in Vienna have been using funds donated by their faithful to pay off prostitutes for sex orgies.

The Turkish governmental agency, Diyanet, oversees (Islamic) religious matters, including mosques in Europe frequented by Turks residing in Western European countries. Diyanet has been accused of spying on the Turkish diaspora in Europe in an attempt to influence them to support the regime of Recep Erdogan.

The article below in Heute (Austria) is translated by Fousesquawk.

First prayer, then sex orgy

Vienna mosque paid escort girls with donations

In a Vienna Diyanet mosque, donations were allegedly misused for escort women and orgies. The Ministry reacts.

-From Newsdesk Today

August 1, 2025 at 15:24

Caption: Donations and alms were spent on escort women and parties.

Escort women instead of prayer: The Turkish presidium needs to clear it up. In a Diyanet mosque in Austria, an imam (Islamic cleric), religious officers, and local personnel allegedly embezzled donations for several years.

Specifically, they allegedly booked the escort women and then had orgy parties with them, as the Turkish news outlet, Sözcü, reports.

Escort parties in Vienna

The scandal goes back 5 years and has its roots in the federal capital, Vienna. Even then, alms and aid money were used for parties with escort women. The case is as yet not cleared up, but there are explosive new details.

Money for parties instead of pilgrimages

A recent investigation has revealed specific accusations. The Diyanet mosques, religious authorities of Turkey, collected donations on Fridays and holidays, but did not record them all in the records.

In addition, a large part of the collections for pilgrimages, offerings, sale of religious books, and funeral funds was allegedly spent on entertainment events.

4 escort women booked for orgies

More specifically, with these collections, at least 4 escort women were repeatedly booked. Subsequently, an orgy took place with them.

To conceal the expenses, they allegedly recorded them as “residence permit expenses, rents, and expenses for imams”.

Caption: Among other things, the organization collected money with this flyer.

But there is more. Inspectors who showed up to check up and investigate the case tried to bribe the accused. They were also reportedly offered pleasure events and excursions to cover up the case.

Two people dismissed

For two people in the organization, there are harsh consequences. FMK (person’s initials), a religious advisor and leader of 63 ATiB Organization (Austria-Turkish-Islamic Union) who was working for the Diyanet Foundation in Vienna, and MS, a religious advisor, were dismissed, according to Sözcü.

The exact name is not found in the media reports, but it is a fact that one of the two people is a relative of a former AKP (Union of European-Turkish Democrats)  minister. Diyanet attributes the dismissal of both to “lack of discipline and incompetence”.

Austrian authorities investigating

The authorities in Austria are now reacting to the alleged scandal. There is an investigation now underway into the foreign funding of ATiB. Moreover, the Ministry of Integration, through the Office of Culture, has requested an explanation from the association, according to (their) statement responding to an inquiry by Heute.  

Source: http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2025/08/austria-turkish-aligned-mosques-in.html