Jurist and
writer (b. 19 July 1944, Elazığ). He attended Katip
Çelebi Primary
School (1956), Galatasaray
High School (1964) and graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Law (1971). He
did his graduate studies at the same university (1977). His graduate thesis was
“Özgürlük Sorunu ve Hukuk” (The
Problem of Freedom and Law). He finished his doctorate studies in 1977 and
became an assistant professor in 1981. He did his internship in Paris between 1980-81. He
worked as a lecturer at İstanbul University (1972-99), dean of the Faculty of
Communication at Galatasaray
University (1974-77),
Director of the Erol Simavi School of Communication and Education (1989-91) and
executive board member at the Anatolian Agency. He was an intern at Lawrence-Kansas University
in the United States
in 1991. He worked as a lecturer at İstanbul
University, Faculty of Political
Sciences, Department of Political Thought and Sociology (1993-98), an advisor
at the Specialist Department of the Council of Forensic Medicine of Turkey
(1983-2002) and as a lecturer at İstanbul Bilgi University,
Faculty of Law and Department of Sociology (1998-2004).
His articles on religion and politics have been published in the
newspapers Cumhuriyet, Milliyet, Güneş,
Yeni Yüzyıl, Radikal and Zaman,
and in the reviews İ.Ü. Hukuk Fakültesi
Mecmuası, Türkiye Günlüğü, Doğu Batı, Annales de la Faculté de Droit
d’İstanbul, Antik and le Monde
Méditerranéen, and various compellations since 1974. He was honored with
the title of Légion d’Honneur by the French Palmes Academiques in 1989. He has
participated in many conferences on the relationship between religion and state
and has presented numerous communiqués in his field at home and abroad. He has
overseen the preparation of various graduate and doctorate theses on justice,
property, media and juvenile delinquency.
WORKS:
RESEARCH-STUDY:
Özgürlük Sorunu ve Hukuk (The Problem
of Freedom and Law, 1977), Fenomenoloji
ve Hukuk (Phenomenology and Law, 1981), Hukukun
Özü Sorunu (The Problem of the Essence of Law, 1981), Hukuk Felsefesi ve Hukuk Sosyolojisi (The Philosophy of Law and The
Sociology of Law, 1988), Sosyoloji ve
Felsefenin Verileriyle Hukuk ve Devlet Felsefesi Akımları (Movements of The
Philosophy of Law and State with Data from Sociology and Philosophy, 1995), Din,
Laiklik ve Alevîlik Yazıları (Articles on Religion, Secularism and the
Alewi Order, 1995), Felsefe, Sosyoloji, Hukuk ve Devlet (Philosophy, Sociology, Law and
the State, in collaboration with Ahmet Ulvi Türkbağ, 1999), Diyalog Yazıları (Articles of Dialogue,
2001), Galatasaraylı Monsenyör (Monsignor
from Galatasaray, 2001).
COLLECTION: Hallac-ı Mansur (Hallac-ı Mansur, 1994).
In addition, he
has translated works.
