Turkey

Professor Atilla Yayla who co-founded the Association for Liberal Thinking in Ankara https://www.liberal.org.tr/ was one of the inspirations for the CD. He has been organising the translation and publication of classical liberal texts into Turkish since the early 1990’s because he realised that without access to them it would be impossible for the climate of opinion in Turkey to change in favour of a free and responsible society.

The Association for Liberal Thinking has been one of our partners in Turkey.

Their mission is to introduce to Turkish public the richness of the intellectual tradition that lay at heart of the liberal democratic civilization toengage in activities that promote understanding and acceptance of values and concepts like liberty, justice, tolerance, peace, human rights, the rule of law, to encourage academic researches on liberal themes; and to contribute to finding effective solutions to Turkey’s political and economic problems within liberal thought.

The CD in English was used by the Association for Liberal Thinking for its work with students. Volkan Ertit, who was introduced to these concepts by ALT, edited the Turkish version under the auspices of the 3 H Movement during 2010. With the help of ALT he then arranged the distribution or 2150 Turkish CDs to colleagues in 27 universities in 18 cities who distributed them within their universities.

The list for the CD of The Values of Free Society

(Turkish Version)

(27 Universities in 18 Cities, totally 2150 CDs were distributed by scholars in their classrooms)

Scholar	City	University	Total
Dr Atilla Yayla	İstanbul	Plato college of Higher Education	100
Dr Mustafa Erdoğan	İstanbul	İstanbul Commerce University	50
Dr. Bekir Berat Özipek	İstanbul	İstanbul Commerce University	50
Dr. Bican Şahin	Ankara	Hacettepe University	50
Dr. Bilal Sambur	Isparta	Süleyman Demirel University	50
Dr. Cennet Uslu	Tokat	Gaziosmanpaşa University	50
Dr. Vahap Coşkun	Diyarbakır	Dicle University	50
Dr. Ömer Çaha	İstanbul	Fatih University	50
Dr. Mustafa Acar	Aksaray	Aksaray University	50
Dr. Murat Çokgezen	İstanbul	Marmara University	50
Dr. Metin Toprak	Eskişehir	Anadolu University	50
Dr. Hüseyin Kalaycı	İstanbul	Maltepe University	50
Dr. Orhan Çakmak	Ankara	Gazi University	50
Dr. Fuat Oğuz	Ankara	Başkent University	50
Dr. Fazıl Hüsnü Erdem	Diyarbakır	Dicle University	50
Dr. Hasan Yücel Başdemir	Çorum	Hitit University	50
Dr. Süleyman İnan	Denizli	Pamukkale University	50
Dr. İhsan Dağı	Ankara	Middle East Technical University	50
Dr. Bahadır Akın	Aksaray	Aksaray University	50
Dr. Yusuf Şahin	Trabzon	Karadeniz Technical University	50
Dr. Murat Erdoğan	Ankara	Hacettepe University	50
Dr. Halis Çetin	Sivas	Cumhuriyet University	50
Dr. Zühtü Arslan	Ankara	Police Academy	50
Dr. Birol Akgün	Konya	Selçuk University	50
Dr. Tanel Demirel	Ankara	Çankaya University	50
Dr. Birol Kovancılar	Manisa	Celal Bayar University	50
Dr. Yüksel Göktaş	Erzurum	Ataturk University	50
Hamit Emrah Beriş	Ankara	Gazi University	50
Dr. Süreyya Sakınç	Manisa	Celal Bayar University	50
Dr. Sevinç Orhan	Denizli	Pamukkale University	50
Dr. Fatma Neval Genç	Aydın	Adnan Menderes University	50
Dr. Cem Yaşin	Ankara	Gazi University	50
Dr. Ali Şafak Balı	Konya	Selçuk University	50
Dr. Hüseyin Bal	Van	100. Years University	50
Dr. Gökhan Bacık	Gaziantep	Zirve University	50
Dr. Ahmet Nezihi Turhan	Eskişehir	Anadolu Universiy	50
Dr. Aliyar Demirci	Denizli	Pamukkale University	50
Dr. Levent Korkut	İstanbul	Hacettepe University	50
Dr. Bahattin Karademir	Adana	Çukurova University	50
Dr. Betül Duman	Adıyaman	Adıyaman University	50
Dr. Mehmet Turhan	Ankara	Çankaya University	50
Dr. Ahmet Uzun	Sivas	Cumhuriyet University	50
Total			2150

Our other partner in Turkey is the 3 H Movement https://www.3hhareketi.org/

The 3H Movement (3H Hareketi or Hürriyet Hukuk Hoşgörü Hareketi in Turkish) is a liberal youth organization with more than a 2,000 members and volunteers that has been active since December 2006, when it was first founded under the name Liberalofis. Since then, the 3H Movement has been arguing against illiberal ideologies such as socialism, conservatism, fascism, and nationalism in Turkey.

3H have held many events reaching thousands of students over recent years and the CD has been distributed at all of them, originally in English but now more often in Turkish. They are currently undertaking a visit a month to universities in different parts of Turkey to hold events at which the CDs will be distributed.

This page is still work in progress and much more information will be posted shortly.

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