Yavuz Özoğuz

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Mehmet Yavuz Özoğuz (* 1959 in Istanbul ) is an author of Turkish origin who has lived in Germany since the early 1960s and runs the Islamist website Muslim-Markt with his brother Gürhan .

Yavuz Özoğuz grew up in a secular, Sunni family . His sister is the SPD - Bundestag Aydan Özoğuz , the 2013-2018 Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration was. Yavuz Özoğuz was involved in the Protestant university community while studying process engineering in Bremen and, according to his own statement, was influenced by Ernesto Cardenal's liberation theology , while he regarded Islam as “pure Middle Ages”. That changed when Cardenal visited Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Iran after the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and described him as “the holiness of our time”, which triggered a five-year conversion process to Shia in Özoğuz . Özoğuz received his doctorate from the University of Bremen in 1991 after successfully defending his dissertation on the subject of layer crystallization as a melt crystallization process .

Özoğuz is the chairman of the Organization Islamischer Weg e. V. in Delmenhorst . Together with his brother Gürhan Özoğuz , he has been running the Muslim-Markt website since 1999 . The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is observing him and the website with reference to sympathy for the theocratic system of government in Iran and anti-Zionist and anti-Israel agitation. On January 19, 2004, Yavuz Özoğuz was sentenced to three months suspended prison sentence by the Delmenhorst district court in connection with publications on its website for denying the Holocaust and inciting people . The process was on appeal at the Oldenburg Regional Court against a money circulation of 1,000 euros set .

Yavuz Özoğuz offers food suppliers a " Halāl certificate", which is supposed to certify the Muslim correctness of food. "Özoguz advises companies on how to manufacture their products in order to be certified as halal - including breweries such as Jever and Karlsberg."

Özoğuz also publishes an encyclopedia of Islam in German on the Internet under the name Enzyklopädie des Islam . However, this is not a German-language edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam . It was funded by the cultural department of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Berlin in 2006 and 2008, but it is mainly funded by private individuals.

In April 2012, Yavuz Özoğuz organized a group trip to Iran, in which Jürgen Elsässer , Gerhard Wisnewski , Elias Davidsson , Karl Höffkes and Konrad Fischer , among others, took part alongside him and his wife Fatima and which included a private audience with the then Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad .

Felix Klein , Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism , sharply criticizes the anti-Israel activities of the Islamists around Özoguz and speaks of the “deliberate delegitimization of the State of Israel”. In addition, classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories would repeatedly crop up in the Islamists' propaganda that Israel and Jews would be demonized as bloodthirsty world rulers. Felix Klein calls for tougher action against such propaganda.

Yavuz Özoğuz is married. The marriage had three children.

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  1. ↑ Benno Schirrmeister: “Honestly, they scare me too!” Yavuz Özoguz defends the Islamic revolution in Iran and the anti-capitalist potential of Islam. Nevertheless, he does not want to have anything to do with Salafists. In: the daily newspaper , February 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ http://www.islamischer-weg.de/diverse/kontakt.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.muslim-markt.de/Service/werist.htm
  4. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 2006, p. 254 ( Memento from August 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Federal Constitutional Protection Report 2005, p. 233 ( Memento of October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ spiegel.de: Allah in Delmenhorst (Barbara Supp)
  7. ↑ Ellen Daniel Halal Seal: Cooking with the Koran. In: Focus . August 20, 2009.
  8. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: Fair for products conforming to Islamic law: "Rinse out the spiritual impurity". Retrieved January 11, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Martin Krauss : Tea at the dictator. German political tourists make a pilgrimage to the mullah regime. In: Jüdische Allgemeine , May 10, 2012; Hübscher's wondrous tour group. In: Spiegel Online , May 4, 2012.
  10. ^ Julian Feldmann and Jörg Hilbert: Hatred of Israel: Islamists in the North. Panorama 3 , October 30, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Özoğuz, Yavuz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Özoğuz, Mehmet Yavuz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and founder of the website Muslim-Markt
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul