Nationality Turkish Education Ankara University Role Professor | Name Atilla Yayla Fields Political Economy, Ethics | |
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Born 3 March 1957 ( 1957-03-03 ) Kaman, Kirsehir, Turkey Alma mater Ankara University
B.A. in Economics, 1980;
M.A. in Public Administration, 1983;
PhD in Political Sciences, 1986 Influences Plato · Aristotle · Hobbes · Locke · Hume · Bentham · Mill · Smith · Ricardo · Tocqueville · Bastiat · Hayek Influenced by Friedrich Hayek, Plato, Adam Smith, Aristotle Similar People Friedrich Hayek, John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, Jean‑Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant | ||
School or tradition Libertarian economics | ||
Prof dr atilla yayla gezi park yorumu sonuna kadar i zle mutlaka
Atilla Yayla ([atiɫɫa jajɫa], born (1957-03-03)March 3, 1957), is a Turkish political thinker and a proponent of liberal democracy. He is the chairman of Association for Liberal Thinking in Turkey. He was Professor of Politics, Political Economy and Political Philosophy at Gazi University in Turkey and the department head of the International Relations department at Faculty of Commercial Sciences of Istanbul Commerce University in Turkey until he was fired in 2015. In 2016 he resigned from his teaching post at Haliç University, after the University administration was charged with corruption and turned over to Istanbul University by The Council of Higher Education (YÖK). He wrote articles to Islamist newspapers Zaman and Yeni Şafak and the pro-government liberal newspaper Yeni Yüzyıl.
Contents
- Prof dr atilla yayla gezi park yorumu sonuna kadar i zle mutlaka
- Atilla yayla dan zg rl k dersi
- Life and career
- Work and views
- Court case and exile
- Books
- Selected articles
- References
Atilla yayla dan zg rl k dersi
Life and career
He was born in 1957 in Kaman, Kırşehir.
As an undergraduate, he studied economics at Ankara University, going on to earn a master's degree in public administration and a Ph.D in political science (1986).
In the 1970s he was involved in Yeniden Milli Mücadele Hareketi (The War of Independence Anew Movement), an anti-communist, -zionist and -imperialist movement founded by Islamist students.
During the 1980s he supported the military junta in Turkey, and praised its leader, the Chief of the General Staff, Kenan Evren, as "... one of the significant sources of hope for the survival of our democracy."
As one of the founders of Association for Liberal Thinking, he had also served the institution as the chairman between 1997 and 2008. He is still member of the institution.
He was a visiting professor at the University of Buckingham. He was the winner of the Anthony Fisher Prize in 2000 for his book "Islam, Civil Society and Market Economy". Yayla was awarded the Person of the Year Award by the Stockholm Network in 2007.
Work and views
Yayla is the author of many books and articles in English and Turkish on terrorism, liberalism, constructivist rationalism, social justice, and Friedrich Hayek.
In a 1998 article "Türkiye'de İslam, İnsan Hakları ve Demokrasi" (Islam, Human Rights, and Democracy in Turkey), he suggests that the human rights and democracy should be implemented by Islamists in Turkey.
In 2006, Yayla was charged with insulting the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk by calling him "that man" in a speech where he argued that the early years of the republic were less democratic than the period after Turkey became a multi-party system, and the cult of personality that has grown up around Atatürk since.
Court case and exile
Yayla's views on Atatürk and the early years of the Turkish Republic led some newspapers, notably Yeni Asır, to proclaim him a traitor. In a court case, he was convicted and received a suspended 15-month jail sentence. Yayla was also dismissed temporarily from his academic post.
Books
Several of Yayla's books are published by Liberte Yayınları (Liberte Publications), a company associated with the Liberal Düşünce Topluluğu.