İbrahim Kalın (born September 15, 1971 in Istanbul) is a Turkish bureaucrat and

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scholar. In 2018, he was appointed as deputy chairman of the Security and Foreign Policy Council of Turkish Presidency and chief adviser to the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He currently serves as the presidential spokesperson and special adviser to the

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. Kalın received his B.A. from the

University of Istanbul , image = Istanbul_University_logo.svg , image_size = 200px , latin_name = Universitas Istanbulensis , motto = tr, Tarihten Geleceğe Bilim Köprüsü , mottoeng = Science Bridge from Past to the Future , established = 1453 1846 1933 ...

and Ph.D. from

George Washington University , mottoeng = "God is Our Trust" , established = , type = Private federally chartered research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.8 billion (2022) , preside ...

under the supervision of Islamic philosopher

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.Bio at Oxford Islamic Studies
/ref> From 2002 to 2005 he was a faculty member at the Department of Religious Studies at the

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.Bio on the Georgetown University website
/ref> He is a founding member and former director (2005–2009) of the

SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research The Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research ( tr, Siyaset, Ekonomi ve Toplum Araştırmaları Vakfı, SETA) is a policy think-tank based in Ankara, Turkey. It was established in 2006 with the objective of producing "up-to-date and ...

based in

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, Turkey.

Bureaucratic career

He became the first coordinator of the Prime Ministry Public Diplomacy Coordinatorship established in January 2010. In 2012, he became Deputy Undersecretary of the Prime Ministry. On December 11, 2014, President

announced that İbrahim Kalın would be the first official Turkish Presidential Press Secretary. In November 2018, he was appointed as Chief Adviser to Erdogan.

Personal life

His parents are from Ispir,

Erzurum Erzurum (; ) is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It is the largest city and capital of Erzurum Province and is 1,900 meters (6,233 feet) above sea level. Erzurum had a population of 367,250 in 2010. The city uses the double-headed eagle as ...

. He is married and has 3 children. His hobbies include music, especially folk music. He professionally plays the

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, sings and has music on youtube with millions of views .

Selected works

;As author * ''Knowledge as Light. Critical Remarks on M. Hairi Yazdi's Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy: Knowledge by Presence.'' In: ''American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences.'' Vol. 16 (1999), pp. 85–97
online
. *''Islam and the West'', 2007 (2007 Writers Association of Turkey award for best book) * ''Knowledge in later Islamic philosophy. Mullā Ṣadrā on existence, intellect, and intuition.'' Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010. * ''Islam in Turkey. Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide.'' Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010. ;As editor * with John L. Esposito: ''

The 500 Most Influential Muslims ''The 500 Most Influential Muslims'' (also known as ''The Muslim 500'') is an annual publication first published in 2009, which ranks the most influential Muslims in the world. The publication is compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies C ...

'' annual, Amman, Jordan:

Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre is a research centre affiliated with the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought. Its publications include: *'' A Common Word Between Us and You'' *'' The Amman Message'' *''Forty Hadith on Divin ...

, 1st edition, 2009. * with John L. Esposito: ''Islamophobia. The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century.'' Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011. *''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam'', Oxford University Press, 2014. ;As contributor *''MacMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2nd Edition'' *''MacMillan Encyclopedia of Religion 2nd Edition'' *''Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy'' *''Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World''

References

^İbrahim Kalın discusses the possibilities in the World after the Coronavirus Pandemic
'Youtube'' Apr 2020 Retrieved May 2020

External links

*
Column archives atDaily Sabah Newspaper

Column archives atYeni Şafak
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