Rıdvan Çakır

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Rıdvan Çakır (born 1945 in Akyazı , Sakarya ; died March 19, 2017 there ) was President of the largest Turkish - Islamic association in Germany , DİTİB (Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion ) from 2003 to the beginning of 2007 .

Life

Rıdvan Çakır trained as an imam in 1966 and graduated from the Islamic Institute in Istanbul in 1970 with a degree in theology . He had performed his military service from 1972 to 1974 as a substitute officer. He later worked as an imam in Kofçaz , Akyazı and Midyat .

In 1975 he started to work as a deputy inspector in the Turkish religious authority Diyanet . In 1987 he was appointed deputy head of department and in 1988 he was made department head. In 1989 he was appointed Deputy President of Diyanet. From 2003 to 2006 he worked as counselor at the Turkish embassy in Berlin . During this time - as is the rule at DİTİB - due to his position at the Turkish embassy, ​​he assumed the position of chairman of the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion e. V. (DİTİB) true.

He was one of the signatories to the Amman Embassy .

Çakır died of cancer on March 19, 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rıdvan Çakır hayatını kaybetti . ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Diyanet Haberler. March 19, 2017, accessed March 20, 2017 (Turkish). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dinihaberler.com
personal data
SURNAME Çakır, Rıdvan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Akyazı , Sakarya , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH 19th March 2017
Place of death Akyazı , Sakarya , Turkey