Kadir Mısıroğlu

Mısıroğlu was born in Akçaabat in the Trabzon Province. During his time at Istanbul University in the 1950s,[4] Mısıroğlu became the president of the Trabzon Highschool Graduates Association in his sophomore year, and opened seven student dormitories.[4] Mısıroğlu married Aynur Aydınaslan in 1961 and had three children: Abdullah Sünusi (1963), Fatıma Mehlika (1965), and Mehmed Selman (1973).[4]

In 1964, he founded the publishing house Sebil and then the magazine named Sebil in 1976.[5] Mısıroğlu wrote over 50 books, which including non-fiction and poems.[1] Also in 1964, Mısıroğlu reached fame through his book Lausanne, Victory or Defeat? (Lozan Zafer mi, Hezimet mi?).[6][7][8]

In 1977, Mısıroğlu was a losing candidate of the National Salvation Party for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.[9] Following the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, he fled and applied for asylum in Germany and settled in Frankfurt.[9]

Following multiple stays for a year and a half at Acıbadem Altunizade Hospital for diabetes, he died on 5 May 2019 due to multiple-organ failure.[10][11][12][13][14][15] His funeral was held at Çamlıca Mosque where a huge crowd of tens of thousands was in attendance.[16][17][18] He was interred in the cemetery of the Nasuhi dergah and mosque at Üsküdar, Istanbul.[19]

Mısıroğlu has been described as a conspiracy theorist.[20][21] He was known for his outspoken stance against Atatürk's reforms and Kemalism,[22][11] and identified as an apologist of Islamism and Pan-Islamism[23][22] by writing books such as İslâmcı Gençliğin El Kitabı ("The Handbook of the Islamist Youth") and İslâm Dünya Görüşü ("Islam, a Worldview").[24] His claims include:

• Joseph Stalin ordered his army to read the Quran on the sands against the Nazis.[25]
• William Shakespeare was a secret Muslim whose name was Sheikh Pir.[26]
• Karl Marx's Das Kapital was dictated by demons.[27]

Mısıroğlu gained infamy with the quote "I wish the Greeks had won",[28][29] for his resentment against the early years of the republic, and he continued, "neither the caliphate nor the sharia would be abolished!"[28][29] His works came under criticism by historian İlber Ortaylı for lacking scientific approach, knowledge and distorting the facts.[30]