Hidayet Tuksal

Hidayet Tuksal (* 1963 in Ankara ) is a Turkish human rights activist, Muslim theologian and columnist. Her full name is Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal.

Hidayet Tuksal comes from a strictly religious family and after completing school he studied Islamic theology at Ankara University , where he did research on the traditions of the Prophet Mohammed in the 1980s . When the headscarf was banned at universities in 1997 , her academic career ended. In 1998 she finished her doctorate on the impact of patriarchal traditions on misogynist Islamic traditions ( Kadın Aleyhtarı Rivayetler Üzerinde Ataerkil Geleneğin Tesirleri ).

In 1995, Tuksal was involved in founding the Muslim-conservative “Platform of Women in the Capital” ( Başkent Kadın Platformu ) and took over the chairmanship several times. The platform's concern was the fight against discrimination against women who wear headscarves and the fight against honor killings .

Tuksal has been a columnist for the Taraf newspaper since 2012 . She wrote a book called "Kadın Karşıtı Söylemin İslam Geleneğindeki İzdüşümleri" (Ankara, 2001). It describes misogyny as projections of Islamic tradition.

Tuksal is married and has three children.

Politico-religious views

In Tuksal's view, misogynist views in the Islamic sources of that time mirror the patriarchal society in early Islam. She is outraged that the Koran allows women to be beaten. This is in contradiction to numerous traditions. Lore depicting Muhammad as harassing his wives should be dropped. In 2004, Tuksal was silent about the proposed law with which the AKP wanted to criminalize adultery . She justified this by saying that otherwise it would have looked as if she were in favor of adultery. In 2008 she signed the I apologize for the Armenian Genocide campaign .

source

• Renate Kreile: Hidayet Tuksal. In: Udo Steinbach (Ed.): Country Report Turkey. Bonn 2012, p. 321.