Necip Fazıl Kısakürek

Necip Fazil Kısakürek ( born May 26, 1904 in Istanbul, † May 25, 1983 ) was a Turkish novelist, poet and philosopher.

Life

His family originally came from Kahramanmaras and he grew up in Çemberlitaş, in Istanbul's Sultanahmet neighborhood, in the villa of his grandfather, a former presiding judge of an appellate court on. Kısakürek attended an American and a French school and until 1922 the fleet academy before moving to a part thereof, but not finished studying philosophy moved to the Sorbonne in 1924 at the Darülfünun to Paris and also enrolled there until 1925 in the philosophical faculty. After he returned to Turkey, Kısakürek worked for eleven years as a bank clerk before he taught at the Mimar Sinan University, the University of Music Ankara and the Department of Language, History and Geography at Ankara University and at the National Conservatory until 1943.

Political Influence

Kısakürek developed, influenced by Abdülhakim Arvâsi (1865-1943), in the 40s the idea of ​​" Islamic Great East " ( Büyük Dogu İslami ), with several states to be combined into a large Islamic unity. The late founder of the IBDA -C, Salih Mirzabeyoğlu, learned as a 18 -year-old Kısakürek know and was greatly influenced by him and his ideas. The IBDA -C oriented consequently strongly Mirzabeyoğlus interpretations of Kısaküreks texts.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan praised Kısakürek in a speech to commemorate his death anniversary at a parliamentary group meeting of the ACP, in which he stated that he was one of the most important thinkers and action people who have brought the country in the 20th century. Next he called Kısakürek as a model for his own and all subsequent generations. The Turkish newspaper Yurt commented, that the speech Erdoğan was shameful because Kısakürek in his book Dogu Yolun sapık Kollari ( dt: The perverts arms of the eastern path ) to calling to uproot and discard Alevis, Druze and Yezidis like weeds. He also had his book Yahudilik - Masonluk - Dönmelik widespread anti-Semitic theories.

Works

Kısakürek wrote a large number of books, newspaper articles, plays and poems, which earned him numerous awards in addition to a few years in prison for " strong opposition" to İsmet Paşa and the Republican People's Party.