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Turkish National Student Union
Turkish National Student Union (Turkish language, Turkish: Millî Türk Talebe Birliği; MTTB) was a Nationalism, nationalist and later Islamism, Islamist organization in Turkey. It was Turkish nationalist from 1946 to 1960s, Turkish–Islamic synthesis, Turkish nationalist and Islamist during the 1960s, and fully Islamism, Islamist from 1970 until its 1980 closure. It was originally founded in 1916, and closed on November 22, 1936, but was revivedin 1946 by Reha Köseoğlu, Tahsin Atakan, and Rehai İslam. It was headquartered in Istanbul. It was closed in 1980 after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. It was partially revived again on March 27, 2008, under the name of Student Union Federation, although is less popular. History MTTB was first established on December 14, 1916, based on Turkish nationalism, secularism, Pan-Turkism, and Turanism. Towards the 1960s, the group shifted to Turkish–Islamic synthesis, and a large faction shifted to Islamism and left the nationalism. In 1924, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , , also known as 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, a member of Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languages of Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, other parts of Europe, the South Caucasus, and some parts of Central Asia, Iraqi Turkmen, Iraq, and Syrian Turkmen, Syria. Turkish is the List of languages by total number of speakers, 18th-most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Persian alphabet, Perso-Arabic script-based Ottoman Turkish alphabet was repl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hüseyin Velioğlu
Hüseyin Velioğlu (born Hüseyin Durmaz; January 1, 1952January 17, 2000) was the founder and leader of the Kurdish Hezbollah, a Kurdish separatist and Islamist group which was designated as a terrorist group by the Turkish government. He was killed by Turkish police during the raids in Istanbul in 2000. Life Velioğlu was born in Bağözü, Gercüş on January 1, 1952, to a Sunni Kurdish family from the Habezbenî tribe. He was the youngest of the 5 children of Osman and Fatime Durmaz. He legally changed his surname to Velioğlu ("son of Veli") in 1978. His family was known among Kurds as "Mala Welî" ("House of Welî"). Welî was his paternal grandfather. He viewed it as a more authentic surname, unlike Durmaz which was imposed by the Turkish government. He adopted nationalist views during his early adulthood, and began studying Kurdish history full-time. He was described as an expert on Kurdish geography, dialects, and tribes. In addition to his native Kurmanji, he sign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-Kurdish Sentiment
Anti-Kurdish sentiment, also known as anti-Kurdism or Kurdophobia, is hostility, fear, intolerance or racism against the Kurds, Kurdish people, Kurdistan, Kurdish culture, or Kurdish languages. A person who holds such positions is sometimes referred to as a "Kurdophobe". Gérard Chaliand coined the term to describe how Kurds have been oppressed. In Turkey, the government has historically denied Kurdish identity and Kurdish language, language. In Syria and Iraq, similar anti-Kurdish policies have caused significant harm, including Anfal campaign, genocidal campaigns in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Recently, conflicts like the War against the Islamic State, fight against ISIS have increased awareness but also heightened anti-Kurdish actions and discrimination. Kurds in Japan, In Japan, anti-Kurdish posts, allegedly made by Turkish people using machine translation, saw a surge in anti-Kurdish sentiment beginning in 2023. Kurds there have been receiving death threats and demands for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raiders Organization
The Raiders Organization ( Turkish: Akıncılar Derneği) is an Islamist sociopolitical group active in Turkey. The group formerly carried out armed activities. It was the paramilitary wing of the National Salvation Party (MSP) until 1981, after which it acted independently. History It was founded in Ankara on December 12, 1975, by a group of university students under the leadership of Tevfik Rıza Çavuşoğlu, with the goal of turning Turkey into an Islamic state. They were significantly influenced by the Iranian Revolution. The Raiders rapidly grew to over 1,200 branches across Turkey. It was a part of MSP and then became an independent organization after MSP's closure. Later, the Ankara Martial Law Command closed the Raiders Organisation, although it continued to defy all closures by operating underground and through rebranded organizations. The Raiders had both Turkish and Kurdish members, although it became Turkish majority after many of its Kurds switched their allegiance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Salvation Party
The National Salvation Party (, MSP) was an Islamist political party in Turkey, founded on 11 October 1972 as the successor of the banned National Order Party (''Millî Nizam Partisi'', MNP). The party was formed by a core group of working cadres of the now banned MNP, with Süleyman Arif Emre serving as the registered founding chairman. Given the banning of the MNP by the staunchly secular state, only 19 individuals were ready to form the party. Necmettin Erbakan, who took part in the formation of the party, officially joined the party in May 1973, taking over the reins of the party in October 1973. The party grew more popular and in 1973 elections it gained 11.8% of votes, gaining 48 seats in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. In the 1977 elections, it gained 8.56% of votes and won 24 seats. In 1974 it formed the coalition government with the secularist Republican People's Party The Republican People's Party (RPP; , CHP ) is a Kemalism, Kemalist and Social democrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Villagers Nation Party
The Republican Villagers Nation Party (, CKMP), alternatively translated Republican Peasants' Nation Party, was a political party in Turkey. Fusions The party was founded after the fusion of two smaller nationalist parties. One of these parties was the Villagers Party, founded by on16 May 1952. Most of the members of this party were former Democrat Party members and they were known as Nationalists. After the death of the founder in a plane crash in 1954, the party could not gain any seats in the parliament in the 1954 and 1957 elections. Another party was Osman Bölükbaşı's Republican Nation Party, which was founded on 27 January 1954. But unlike Turkey Villagers Party, the Republican Nation Party was actually the continuation of Bölükbaşı's former party named Nation Party which was banned in 1953. Both in 1954 and in 1957 elections they were able to gain seats in the Parliament. On October 17, 1958, the Villagers Party merged with the Republican Nation Party to fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quran
The Quran, also Romanization, romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a Waḥy, revelation directly from God in Islam, God (''Allah, Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which consist of individual verses ('). Besides its religious significance, it is widely regarded as the finest work in Arabic literature, and has significantly influenced the Arabic, Arabic language. It is the object of a modern field of academic research known as Quranic studies. Muslims believe the Quran was orally revealed by God to the final Islamic Prophets and messengers in Islam, prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad through the Angel#Islam, angel Gabriel#Islam, Gabriel incrementally over a period of some 23 years, beginning on the Night of Power, Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632, the year of his death. Muslims regard the Quran as Muhammad's most important Islamic view of miracles, miracle, a proof of his prophet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kayseri
Kayseri () is a large List of cities in Turkey, city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri Province, Kayseri province. Historically known as Caesarea (Mazaca), Caesarea, it has been the historical capital of Cappadocia since ancient times. The Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality area is composed of five districts: the two central districts of Kocasinan and Melikgazi, and since 2004, also outlying Hacılar, İncesu, Kayseri, İncesu, and Talas, Turkey, Talas. As of 31 December 2024, the province had a population of 1 452 458 of whom 1 210 983 lived in the four urban districts (Melikgazi, Kocasinan, Talas, Incesu), excluding İncesu, Kayseri, İncesu which is not conurbated, meaning it is not contiguous and has a largely non-protected buffer zone. Kayseri sits at the foot of Mount Erciyes (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Erciyes Dağı''), a dormant volcano that reaches an altitude of , more than 1,500 metres above the city's mean altitude. It contains a number of hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustafa Ok
Mustafa Ok (1925 – 5 January 2009) was a Turkish military officer, politician and former government minister. Life Mustafa Ok was born at Koldere village of Saruhanlı ilçe (district) in Manisa Province in 1925. After primary and secondary education in Turgutlu, he graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in 1944. In 1955–1956, he served in the Turkish Brigade in South Korea. In 1962, he resigned from the army, and entered politics. After 1977, he left politics. He died on 5 January 2009 in İzmir . Mustafa Ok was married and father of three. Political life Before resignation from the army, Mustafa Ok wrote an article as a non-journalist writer in Cumhuriyet newspaper within the scope of an article contest. The subject of the contest was "The most important issue of Turkey". His article was titled "The foundation of Villages". He received the first prize in the contest and attracted public attention. After resignation, Mustafa Ok joined the Republican People's Party (C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalist Movement Party
The Nationalist Movement Party, or alternatively translated as Nationalist Action Party (, MHP), is a Turkish Far-right politics, far-right, ultranationalism, ultranationalist Political parties in Turkey, political party. The group is often described as Neo-fascism, neo-fascist, and has been linked to violent paramilitaries and Turkish mafia, organized crime groups. Its leader is Devlet Bahçeli. The party was formed in 1969 by former Turkish Army colonel Alparslan Türkeş, who had become leader of the Republican Villagers Nation Party (CKMP) in 1965. The party mainly followed a Pan-Turkism, Pan-Turkist and Turkish nationalist political agenda throughout the latter half of the 20th century. Devlet Bahçeli took over after Türkeş's death in 1997. The party's youth wing is the Grey Wolves (organization), Grey Wolves (''Bozkurtlar'') organization, which is also known as the "Nationalist Hearths" (''Ülkü Ocakları'') which played one of the biggest roles during the Political v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idealism (Turkey)
Idealism (), also known as Türkeşism () is a Turkish–Islamic nationalist ideology developed by Alparslan Türkeş and the Nationalist Movement Party as a principle of the Nine Lights Doctrine. The philosophy of Idealism was largely influenced by the ideas of Ziya Gökalp, a Turkish sociologist, writer, and poet. Gökalp believed that the Turkish people needed to create a new national identity that was distinct from their Ottoman past and grounded in their own cultural, historical, and linguistic traditions. He argued that this new identity (" Turkishness") should be based on the principles of Islam and Turkish nationalism, and that it should be promoted through education and cultural institutions. Idealism has had a significant influence on Turkish political and intellectual thought, and its ideas continue to shape the country's political and cultural landscape today. Origin The origins of the name go back to the terms "''millî mefkure (ülkü)''" used by Ziya Gökalp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
