Mümtaz'er Türköne, (born 1956 in
Istanbul), is a Turkish academic and author. He was a faculty member at
Gazi University from 1993 to 2007 and was a columnist for the ''
Zaman'' and its English-language sister ''
Today's Zaman
''Today's Zaman'' (Zaman is Turkish for 'time' or 'age') was an English-language daily newspaper based in Turkey. Established on 17 January 2007, it was the English-language edition of the Turkish daily '' Zaman.'' ''Today's Zaman'' included dom ...
''.
In the 1990s Türköne was a member of the ''Analitik Grubu'' group of advisors to Prime Minister
Tansu Çiller.
In January 2012 Türköne resigned from the Atatürk Culture, Language and History Institution, a month after being appointed by President
Abdullah Gül. His appointment had been criticised as Türköne had previously described Atatürkism as a "closed minded and bigoted" ideology.
He is the ex-husband of former AKP deputy
Özlem Türköne
Özlem is a common feminine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Özlem" means ''yearning'' and ''missing''.
Given name
* Asiye-Özlem Sahin (born 1976), Turkish-German professional boxer
* Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu (born 1998), Turkish-German footbal ...
.
Awards
*
Türkiye Yazarlar Birliği 2006, "Media/thought" category
[ Hurriyet Daily News, 4 January 2007]
Turkish Writers Union honors intellectuals of Turkey
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Books
* ''Siyasi İdeoloji Olarak İslamcılığın Doğuşu''
* ''Cemaleddin Afgani'' (on Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani)
* Siyaset
* Darbe Peşinde Koşan Bir Nesil 68 Kuşağı
* Sözde Askerler
* Türkiye'nin Kayıp Halkası
* Türklük ve Kürtlük
* Türk Modernleşmesi
* ModernleÅŸme, Laiklik
* Siyasi, Tarihi, Dini ve Kültürel Boyutlarıyla İslam ve Şiddet
* Türkler ve İslamiyet'' (with İlber Ortaylı and Nevzat Yalçıntaş.)
* ''Kürt Meselesi Nasıl Çözülmez?'' (with Hüseyin Yayman)
References
External links
www.mumtazerturkone.com
* ''Taraf
''Taraf'' ("Side" in Turkish) was a liberal newspaper in Turkey. It had distinguished itself by opposing interference by the Turkish military in the country's social and political affairs. It was distributed nationwide, and had been in circulati ...
'', 13 October 2008
Mümtazer Türköne: ‘Askeri devlet kurmak istiyorlar’
(interview)
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1956 births
Living people
Academics from Istanbul
Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences alumni
Zaman (newspaper) people
Academic staff of Gazi University