Kadir Mısıroğlu

Kadir Mısıroğlu
Born(1933-01-24)24 January 1933
Akçaabat, Trabzon, Turkey
Died5 May 2019(2019-05-05) (aged 86)
Istanbul, Turkey
OccupationLawyer, writer
EducationLaw
Alma materIstanbul University
Spouse
Aynur Aydınaslan
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(m. 1961)​
Children3

Kadir Mısıroğlu (24 January 1933 – 5 May 2019[1]) was a Turkish lawyer and Islamist conspiracy theorist.[2][3][4][5]

He founded the foundation Osmanlılar İlim ve İrfan Vakfı, a neo-Ottoman monarchist NGO in 1994 and he led it until at least 2014.

He worked to discredit the Turkish secular nationalist rule,[3] and for him, living under Islamic rule in an enemy-occupied country was better than living under secular rule in a free country.[6][7] He claimed that Joseph Stalin ordered his army to read the Quran on the sands against the Nazis,[8] William Shakespeare was a secret Muslim whose name was Sheikh Pir,[9] and Karl Marx's Das Kapital was dictated by demons.[10] His works came under criticism by historian İlber Ortaylı for lacking scientific approach, knowledge and distorting the facts.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Cumhuriyet: Kadir Mısıroğlu öldü
  2. ↑ Türkiye’de Komplo Teorileri: Temalar, Kökenler ve Kaynaklar Üzerine Bütüncül Bir Soruşturma, Nuh Akçakaya. Selçuk Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Sosyoloji Bölümü (in Turkish)
  3. 1 2 "Lozan Antlaşması'nın 100. Yılında Komplo Teorileri ve Gizli Maddelerin İzinde". Yalansavar (in Turkish). 25 July 2023. Archived from the original on 6 August 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  4. ↑ "Komplo teorileri: Korku tüccarlığı paranoya piyasasından geçiniyor". Independent Türkçe (in Turkish). 7 February 2020. Archived from the original on 17 October 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  5. ↑ Gökşin, Ozan Ekin (5 March 2020). "Üst Akıl, Gezi Direnişi ve Komplo Teorileri - Ozan Ekin Gökşin -Avlaremoz". www.avlaremoz.com (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 17 October 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  6. ↑ "Şeriat gelsin de isterse Türkiye batsın". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 2019-02-04. Archived from the original on 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
  7. ↑ cihandem (2016-10-12). "Kadir Mısıroğlu'ndan skandal sözler: Keşke Yunan galip gelseydi". Sözcü (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2021-09-08. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  8. ↑ "İslamcı tarihçi Kadir Mısıroğlu'nun bir konuşmasında kullandığı ifadeler izleyenleri gülümsetti". OdaTV. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  9. ↑ "Kadir Mısıroğlu: Shakespeare'in aslı Şeyh Pir'dir". CNN Türk (in Turkish). 11 December 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-02-08. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  10. ↑ "Yılmaz Özdil: Maraş dondurmacısı fesli tarihçi..." Yeni Akit. 20 August 2015. Archived from the original on 8 August 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  11. ↑ Ortaylı, İlber (23 July 2017). "Mükemmel Temsilci" (in Turkish). Hürriyet. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2020.