İbrahim Kalın

İbrahim Kalın
Official portrait, 2018
Director of the National Intelligence Organization
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 June 2023
PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan
Preceded byHakan Fidan
Spokesperson of the Presidency of Turkey
In office
11 December 2014 – 4 June 2023
PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan
Preceded byAhmet Sever
Assistant Secretary to the Prime Minister of Turkey
In office
2012 – 11 December 2014
Prime MinisterRecep Tayyip Erdogan
Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey
In office
2009–2012
Preceded byAhmet Davutoğlu
Succeeded byKemal Ökem
Personal details
Born (1971-09-15) 15 September 1971 (age 53)
Istanbul, Turkey
Political partyJustice and Development Party
Children3
Alma materIstanbul University (BA)
George Washington University (PhD)

İbrahim Kalın (born 15 September 1971) is a Turkish bureaucrat and academic who is the current director of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT).[1] An academic specialising in Islamic philosophy, Kalın received his doctorate under the supervision of Seyyed Hossein Nasr. As a member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), he previously served as the presidential spokesperson and senior advisor to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from 2014 to 2023 and as the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Security and Foreign Policy in the Presidential Complex.[2][3]

Education and academic career

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İbrahim Kalın was born in Istanbul into a family from Erzurum. Kalın received his B.A. in history from the University of Istanbul and M.A. from International Islamic University Malaysia.[4][5] In 2002, Kalın received a Ph.D. in Islamic studies from George Washington University under the supervision of Islamic philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr.[6][7][5] His dissertation was later published as Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy: Mullā Ṣadrā on Existence, Intellect, and Intuition.[4]

From 2002 to 2005, he was a faculty member at the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.[8] He lectured on Islamic philosophy at Ibn Haldun University between 2019 and 2022, becoming a professor in 2020.[5] He is a founding member and former director (2005–2009) of the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research based in Ankara, Turkey.[9] His academic interest is in post-Avicennan Islamic philosophy.[10]

Bureaucratic career

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Kalın with Andriy Yermak, head of Office of the President of Ukraine, 2020

Kalın entered government in 2009 at the behest of fellow academic and then-Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu,[4] serving as Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister.[7] He became the first coordinator of the Prime Ministry Public Diplomacy Coordinatorship established in January 2010. In 2012, he became Assistant Secretary of the Prime Ministry. On December 11 2014, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Kalın would be the first official Turkish Presidential Press Secretary. In November 2018, he was appointed as Senior Advisor to Erdogan.[11] On June 5 2023, Erdogan appointed Kalın as director of the National Intelligence Organization.[5]

Personal life

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His parents are from İspir, Erzurum.[12] He is married and has three children.[5] His hobbies include music, especially folk music. He professionally plays the bağlama, sings and has music on YouTube with millions of views.[13] He speaks English, Arabic, Persian and French.[7]

Selected works

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As author
  • Knowledge as Light. Critical Remarks on M. Hairi Yazdi's Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy: Knowledge by Presence. In: American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences. Vol. 16 (1999), pp. 85–97 (online).
  • Islam and the West, 2007 (2007 Writers Association of Turkey award for best book)[6]
  • Knowledge in later Islamic philosophy. Mullā Ṣadrā on existence, intellect, and intuition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-985277-2
  • Islam in Turkey. Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-980651-5
As editor
As contributor[6]
  • MacMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2nd Edition
  • MacMillan Encyclopedia of Religion 2nd Edition
  • Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World

References

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  1. ^ "İbrahim Kalın appointed as new intelligence chief - Türkiye News". Hürriyet Daily News. 2023-06-06. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  2. ^ "TRT World Research Centre - İbrahim Kalın CV". researchcentre.trtworld.com. Archived from the original on 2020-07-09. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  3. ^ "İbrahim Kalın kimdir?" [Who is İbrahim Kalın?] (in Turkish). Habertürk. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  4. ^ a b c "Ibrahim Kalin - The Muslim 500". themuslim500.com. 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  5. ^ a b c d e Sabah, Daily (2023-06-06). "Türkiye's top spokesperson Kalın becomes its new spymaster". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  6. ^ a b c Bio at Oxford Islamic Studies
  7. ^ a b c "Prof. Amb. İbrahim KALIN | Doha Forum". dohaforum.org. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  8. ^ Bio on the Georgetown University website
  9. ^ University, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown. "Ibrahim Kalin". berkleycenter.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ "Ibrahim Kalin". SETA. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  11. ^ "Turkey appoints new ambassadors, senior advisors - Turkey News". Hürriyet Daily News. 9 November 2018. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  12. ^ "İbrahim Kalın Biyografisi". Haberler.
  13. ^ Yavuz Bingöl ve İbrahim Kalın - Melullenme Deli Gönül - TRT Avaz, retrieved 2020-05-22
  14. ^ "Book lists '500 Most Influential Muslims': Top 20 inclusions seem to be less convincing and dictated". Islamic Voice. December 2009. Archived from the original on July 1, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
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Political offices
Preceded by
New title
 Turkish Presidential Press Secretary
2015–present 		Incumbent
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