 The elections took place when the five-year term of Mufti Bagâş Sanghirai expired.The Sura-Islam (Synodal Council) consists of 15 clerics, 8 laymen, the outgoing mufti and the head of the Kemal Atatürk Theological High School.Imam Murat Yusuf, then 28, was elected for a five-year term.