Abdullah Aymaz

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Abdullah Aymaz
Born 1949
Kütahya, Turkey
Pen name İsmail Yediler,Hüseyin Bayram,Safvet Senih
Occupation Writer, journalist
Genre Religion, nature of healing, Islam

Abdullah Aymaz was born in Kütahya, Turkey in 1949. [1] Once he finished his education in primary school Hacımahmut in his town.

Kütahya Municipality in Aegean, Turkey

Kütahya is a city in western Turkey with 237,804 inhabitants, lying on the Porsuk river, at 969 metres above sea level. It is the capital of Kütahya Province, inhabited by some 564,294 people. The region of Kütahya has large areas of gentle slopes with agricultural land culminating in high mountain ridges to the north and west. The city's Greek name was Kotyaion, Latinized in Roman times as Cotyaeum.

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He started living in Izmir and he visited İzmir İmam Hatip high school. During his high school time he had published written work in Gurbet magazine. He did his higher education at İzmir Yüksek İslam Enstitüsü and he worked as a teacher in Tire and Izmir. His career as a journalist as well as a writer started in 1988 when he started to work for the Turkish newspaper Zaman . [1]

<i>Zaman</i> (newspaper) major, high-circulation daily newspaper in Turkey

Zaman, sometimes stylized as ZAMAN, was a daily newspaper in Turkey. Zaman was a major, high-circulation daily before government seizure on 4 March 2016 It was founded in 1986 and was the first Turkish daily to go online in 1995. It contains national (Turkish), international, business, and other news. It also has many regular columnists who cover current affairs, interviews, and a culture section.

Turkish Theologian, Journalist, Writer

Abdullah Aymaz was born on 1945, in Emet, Turkey. After studying at the primary school, he moved to Izmir, where he met with Turkish scholar and opinion leader Fethullah Gulen and Hizmet (Service) Movement, to study at religious vocational high school and Islamic Institute. During his time in high school, he wrote up articles for Gurbet magazine. He served as teacher and manager of educational foundations in several places of Izmir. In 1979, his religious and educational articles began to be published in Sızıntı magazine, which is the very first publication of Hizmet Movement. As of 1988, his journalism career commenced in Zaman newspaper, in which he also served as editor-in-chief until 1992. As writer, he published more than 50 books under the pen names of Huseyin Bayram, Ismail Yediler and Safvet Senih. Currently, his articles are still published in Zaman Europe. Aymaz is one of the first names that come to mind when one thinks of Hizmet Movement. Because he spent most of his time with Fethullah Gülen in his youth and after, he internalizes the vision of Gülen. Considering the very beginning of Hizmet Movement, he has a very important role in the formation of movement’s discourse. 19 In March 1997, he conveyed Fethullah Gülen's letter to Pope John Paul II. Since the days in Izmir, where Gülen's outstanding discourse began to crystallize, Abdullah Aymaz has become an integral part of him and the movement.

Sızıntı was a monthly Islamic magazine published between 1979 and July 2016 in Turkey. Its English-language version is known as The Fountain. The magazine was started by and is operated by members of the Gülen movement, made up of the followers of the Turkish preacher and Islamic opinion leader Fethullah Gülen, and claims to bring together Islam and science by stressing the alleged "parallels" between modern scientific discoveries and literal verses from the Quran.

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His work using his pen name: Hüseyin Bayram

His work using his pen name: Safvet Senih

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