Muzaffer Özdağ

Military man, politician, researcher and writer (b.1933, Pınarbaşı, Kayseri - d. 2002). He attended primary and elementary school in Gaziantep and then Kuleli Military High School (1950). He graduated from the Turkish Military Collage (1952), Ankara University, Faculty of Law (1953-56) and İstanbul Military Collage (1960).

He was a member of the Committee for National Unity, established after the military coup on 27 May 1960, when he then became a member of the Social Commission and the press secretary. With the Committee for National Unity, he took part in the work on the Temporary Constitution and Parliamentary Regu–lations. From 1961 to 1963 he was the government undersecretary for the Turkish embassy in Tokyo and then the vice-chairman of the Nationalist Action Party. Later on he gave up politics and worked as a legal practitioner.

WORKS:

Türkiye ve Türk Dünyası Jeopolitiği (Geopolitics of Turkey and the Turkish World), Göreve Çağrı (A Call for Duty), Türk Rus Dostluğunun Önemi Lüzumu ve Önşartları (The Importance, Necessity and Pre-conditions of the Friendship Between the Turkish and the Russians), Türk Devrimi ve Atatürk (Turkish Revolution and Atatürk), Türklük (Being Turkish), İslâmiyet ve Laiklik (Islam and Secularism), Millet Birliğimiz - Vatan Bütünlüğümüz (Our National Unity and Integrity of the Motherland), Soydaş Toplumlardan Kürtler (Kurds - A Society from Our Race), Türk Aleviliği (Turkish Alewi), Tanzimatı Zarurî Kılan Şartlar - Başarısız Kılan Sebepler (The Conditions That Necessitated the Tanzimat* and the Reasons of its Failure), Türk Dünyasının Temel Meseleleri (Basic Problems of the Turkish World), Medeniyetler Çatışması Üzerine (On the Clash of Civilizations), Osmanlı Tarih ve Edebiyatında Türk Düşmanlığı (Enmity against the Turkish in Ottoman History and Literature).