Ercan Karakoyun

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Ercan Karakoyun (May 2017)

Ercan Karakoyun (born 1980 in Schwerte ) is a German publicist, sociologist and chairman of the Foundation Dialogue and Education , which is considered the contact person for the Gülen movement in Germany . He is also co-founder of the House of One , a house of prayer that is to be built in Berlin and wants to bring the three monotheistic religions Judaism , Christianity and Islam together under one roof.

Ercan Karakoyun is the son of Turkish immigrants . He studied spatial planning with a focus on urban sociology . He completed his studies with a scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation , of which he became a mentor. From 2001 to 2004 he was deputy chairman of the Jusos in Dortmund . From 2008 to 2013 he was the chairman of the Forum for Intercultural Dialogue eV and has been chairman of the Foundation Dialogue and Education in Berlin , the central institution of the Gülen movement in Germany , since it was founded in 2014 .

He made various statements on the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016 .

Positions and opinions

In the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT , Ercan Karakoyun commented on the discussion of whether there should be a public holiday for Muslims in Germany . Karakoyun emphasizes in his contribution the advantages of a Muslim holiday: “We have to step out of our victim role, which we have practiced for years, and stand up for our values ​​in a spirit of dialogue. The goal: to bring a civil European Islam that is compatible with enlightenment, human rights, democracy - and which we already live a million times over - from the backyards of society into the public consciousness! We Muslims can no longer wait for the majority of society to reach out to us. We have to arouse interest in our religion ourselves. A Muslim holiday would be the chance to have a dialogue from which not only Muslims benefit, but also Christians, Jews and everyone in Germany. "

In March 2016, a few months before the coup attempt in Turkey , Karakoyun drew attention to the situation in Turkey in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung by pointing out that the rule of law no longer plays a role for Turkish President Recep T. Erdogan . In June 2018 he published a guest article in Die Zeit in which he described the persecution of the Gülen movement as a witch hunt.

About the persecution of supporters of the Gülen movement in Turkey , Karakoyun said on Deutschlandradio Kultur : “It's as if FC Bayern Munich were being banned because Uli Hoeneß evaded taxes. [...] There must clearly be legal processes - everything else is anarchy; everything else is dictatorship. "

Book: The Gülen Movement. What she is, what she wants.

On Deutschlandfunk , the journalist Luise Samman explained Ercan Karakoyun's book "The Gülen Movement", published by Herder Verlag in 2017, as follows: Karakoyun's assessments of German society as a whole are at least as illuminating as his reports on educational commitment. About togetherness - or not togetherness - of Muslims and non-Muslims in Germany, especially since September 11, 2001. (...) Ercan Karakoyun - as a student scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and chairman of the Jusos in Dortmund - is intelligent and eloquent. It gives non-Muslim readers in particular countless aha effects, for example in the inserted chapter "A contemporary interpretation of the Koran", which one would prefer to make compulsory reading at German grammar schools. In February 2017, Rainer Hermann wrote for the FAZ : "Karakoyun creates an image of what he sees as a contemporary Islam. It shows how important education and serious dialogue are to Gülen's supporters. Karakoyun does not hide dark spots, such as the role of public prosecutors are close to the movement and have led the Ergenekon trials that resulted in senior officers being sentenced to long prison terms.

Publications

  • The Gülen movement. Freiburg: Verlag Herder, 2018
  • What I think, what I believe: Verlag Herder, 2018 (Ed.)
  • (Participation) Fethullah Gülen: What I think, what I believe. Freiburg, Br.: Herder, 2014 [text selection by Ercan Karakoyun]
  • Walter Homolka , Johann Hafner , Admiel Kosman, Ercan Karakoyun (eds.): Muslims between tradition and modernity. The Gülen movement as a bridge between cultures. Freiburg 2010

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ The Godfather - magazin.spiegel.de (accessed September 30, 2018)
  2. ↑ Witch Hunt - DIE ZEIT - guest contribution by Ercan Karakoyun (accessed on September 30, 2018)
  3. ↑ Hizmet: Ercan Karakoyun on the attempted coup - youtube.com (accessed September 30, 2018)
  4. ↑ A Muslim holiday? DIE ZEIT, November 2, 2017, accessed on September 19, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Ercan Karakoyun: Turkey controls “Zaman”: For Erdogan the rule of law has ceased to exist . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed November 20, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Gülen Movement: Witch Hunt . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed November 20, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Oliver Thoma: Unrestrained into the dictatorship? Turkey one year after the coup attempt. In: DeutschlandFunk Kultur. July 14, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Gülen Movement - An attempt to explain by an insider . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed November 20, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Karakoyun, Ercan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and Islamic religious functionary (Gülen movement)
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Swords