Kadir Mısıroğlu

Kadir Mısıroğlu
Born 24 January 1933
Akçaabat, Turkey
Education Law
Alma mater Istanbul University
Known for Islamist writer, history researcher
Religion Sunni Islam
Website Kadir Mısıroğlu
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Kadir Mısıroğlu (born 24 January 1933, Akçaabat, Trabzon) is a Turkish history researcher, writer, poet, attorney and a former journalist. He is also a staunch anti-Secularist and known for his opposing opinions against the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Early life and career

Mısıroğlu was born in Akçaabat in the Trabzon Province and enrolled at the Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1954. He became interested in history during his university education and began research as an amateur historian. He founded the publishing house Sebil in 1964 and the eponymous magazine in 1976.[1] He has published more than 50 history and research books in his career.[2]

National Salvation Party

In 1977, Mısıroğlu became a Trabzon candidate of the Islamist National Salvation Party for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey but failed to be elected.[3] He became a member of the Central Committee of the party in 1978 but after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, he sought asylum in Germany and settled in Frankfurt.[3]

Return to Turkey

Mısıroğlu returned to Turkey in 1991. He founded the foundation Osmanlılar İlim ve İrfan Vakfı, an Ottoman monarchist NGO in 1994 and he has been leading it since then.[4]

Works

Research

Non-fiction

Fiction

Poems

Under the penname Cüneyd Emiroğlu

References

  1. Abdurrahman Acer and Kadir Mısıroğlu, Türkçe'nin Müdafaası, p. 307.
  2. "Kadir Mısıroğlu Eserleri".
  3. 1 2 TERCEME-İ HÂL
  4. Belgelerle Gerçek Tarih

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