Salih Mirzabeyoğlu (real name Salih İzzet Erdiş; 10 May 1950, in Erzincan – 16 May 2018, in Yalova) was a Kurdish-Turkish Islamic fundamentalist with Sayyid origin. His family were close to both the

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and Nurcu Islamic brotherhoods, and were involved with the Kurdish Sheikh Said rebellion in 1925 against the newly founded Turkish Republic. Like most İBDA-C members, he was an ethnic

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. In 1975, he and his friends published a political magazine called ''Gölge'' (Shadow). Mirzabeyoğlu was influenced by the Islamist poet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek who published a magazine called '' Büyük Doğu''. He is the ideologue and alleged leader of the

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(İBDA-C), a

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group present in Turkey. He was arrested on 29 December 1998 for allegedly trying to overthrow the constitutional order by force. Subsequently, following the İBDA-C concept of 'leaderless resistance', further attacks on banks, synagogues, churches, places serving alcohol and TV stations were claimed by groups who said they were part of İBDA-C. The bombings in Istanbul claimed 65 lives including that of the British consul general

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. Mirzabeyoğlu was sentenced to

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. On 23 July 2014, he was released from prison, and on 29 November 2014 consulted with President

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.National Islamist leader meets Erdoğan
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He has written 50 books. * Bütün Fikrin Gerekliliği (Necessity of Whole Idea) * Tarihten Bir Yaprak (A Paper from History) * Necip Fazıl'la Baş Başa (with Necip Fazıl) * Kültür Davamız (Our Culture Thesis) * Şiir ve Sanat Hikemiyatı (Poetry and Art Philosophy) * İstikbal İslâmındır (The Future Belongs to

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) * Anafor (Whirlpool - poems) * Adımlar (Steps - interviews) * Büyük Muztaribler 1-2-3 (Great Agitateds - philosophy history) * Tilki Günlüğü 1-2-3-4-5-6 (Fox Diary - spiritual novel) * Sefine (Ship - philosophy of physics) * Elif (Aleph - painting) * Yağmurcu (Rainer) * Hırka-ı Tecrid * Marifetname * Yaşamayı Deneme (Trying to Live - novel) * Hakikat-i Ferdiye * Furkan (different kind of dictionary) * Telegram * Müjdelerin Müjdesi (stories) * Münşeat (a different kind of poems) * İBDA Diyalektiği (Dialect of İBDA) * İslam'a Muhatap Anlayış (Understanding Towards to

) * Kavgam 1-2 (My Struggle) * Sahabinin Rolü ve Manası (Role and Meaning of Disciple) * Hukuk Edebiyatı (Literature of the Laws) * Başyücelik Devleti (State of Başyücelik) * Aydınlık Savaşçıları (Fighters of Light - epic) * Dil ve Anlayış (Language and Understanding) * Kökler (Roots) * Kayan Yıldız Sırrı (Mystery of Slipping Star - poem) * İktisat ve Ahlâk (Economics and Morality) * Parakuta (about politics/aesthetics of money) * Önsöz (Preface) * İdeolocya ve İhtilâl (Ideology and Revolution) * Hikemiyat (Philosophies) * İşkence (Torture - anecdote) * Gölgeler (Shadows - novel) * Damlaya Damlaya * Üç Işık (Three Lights) * Erkam (Philosophy of mathematics) * Berzah

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