Mehmet Yıldırım

Mehmet Yıldırım is a contemporary figure of Islam in Germany of Turkish origin.

Until his resignation for personal reasons in May 2011, Yıldırım was Deputy General Secretary / Managing Director of the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (DITIB), the state-Turkish mosque association founded in 1984 with headquarters in Cologne - Ehrenfeld , and thus a management function of the largest group of organized Muslims in Germany . Yıldırım has lived in Germany for over forty years. Before joining the DITIB board, Yıldırım taught as a teacher at a vocational school for many years.

In 2004, he stated that his organization fully accepted a headscarf ban for teachers in public schools .

The world - journalist Günther Lachmann counted him in 2006 the top ten Muslims in Germany.

Publications (selection)

• "The Cologne Ditib Mosque: An open mosque as a contribution to integration", in: Franz Sommerfeld (ed.): The Mosque Dispute: An exemplary debate on immigration and integration. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2008, pp. 66–71.

literature

• Franz Sommerfeld (ed.): The mosque dispute: an exemplary debate about immigration and integration. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2008
• Andreas Gorzewski: The Turkish-Islamic Union is changing. 2015 ( partial online view )

Web links

• The ten most important Muslims in Germany , welt.de, October 1, 2006 ( Günther Lachmann )
• DITIB opens info container (January 27, 2010)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} welt.de: The ten most important Muslims in Germany , October 1, 2006 ( Günther Lachmann ) - accessed on December 2, 2017
2. ^ Robert Kriechbaumer: "Enough!": The Gusenbauer - Molterer government. Austria 2007/2008. (Series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library) 2016, p. 59 ( partial online view )