Atilla Yayla
| Atilla Yayla | |
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| Born |
3 March 1957 Kaman, Kırşehir, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Field | Political economy, ethics, civil rights |
| School or tradition |
Liberalism |
| Alma mater |
Ankara University B.A. in Economics, 1980; M.A. in Public Administration, 1983; PhD in Political Sciences, 1986 |
| Influences | Bastiat • Erdoğan • Evren • Gülen • Hayek • Hobbes • Hume • Locke • Mises |
| Atilla Yayla | |
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| 2nd Chairman of Association for Liberal Thinking | |
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In office 1997–2008 |
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| Preceded by | Kazım Berzeg |
| Succeeded by | Bican Şahin |
| Atilla Yayla | |
|---|---|
| 4th Chairman of Association for Liberal Thinking | |
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Assumed office 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Bican Şahin |
Atilla Yayla (Turkish: [atiɫɫa jajɫa], born 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.
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 i (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.
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