ProfessorIhsan Yilmaz

Ihsan regularly wrote columns between 2007-2016 for Today's Zaman, an English language daily published in Turkey and between 2015-2016 for Meydan, a popular daily published in Turkish. He also contributed to many TV programmes in Turkish and English on politics, Islamism and Turkish affairs.

Columnist: Meydan Gazetesi (Turkish Daily), three times a week, 2015-2016.

Columnist: Todays Zaman (English Daily), twice a week, 2007-2016.

Regular TV Commentator: Samanyolu TV, once a week, 2014-2015.

Frequent Appearances: CNN Turk, Kanal D, Haberturk TV, Bugun TV, Arti 1

Interviewed by: CNN International, Deutsche Welle, ABC, Al Jazeera, China State TV, WSJ, El Pais, Le Temps, Al Ahram, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Zaman, Todays Zaman, Aksiyon, Rotahaber, + Greek, Swiss, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Brazilian dailies

Ihsan is also an active social media user with 199.000 Twitter followers

The Way Forward, Advancing Freedom of Expression in Turkey, Advancing Freedom of Expression in Turkey, Stockholm, Sweden, Mar. 2013.

Muslim Citizens between Islamic Law and State Law: Legal Pluralism in England, Turkey and Pakistan (tentative title), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Legal Pluralism in Muslim Context, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Munster, Germany. 6-7 October 2016.

Religious Movements and Dialogue. Hizmet in Comparative Perspective: The Abant Experience, Transnational Religious Movements, Dialogue and Economic Development: The Hizmet Movement in Comparative Perspective, University of Turin, Italy, 10-11 December 2015.

Religious Political Parties in Turkey, Religions and Constitutional Transitions in the Muslim Mediterranean: The Pluralistic Moment, Insubria University, in Como, Italy, 3-5 June2014.

Power of the State, Religion and Mass Media, International Conference on Christianity Orthodoxy and the Media in Modern World, International Secretariat of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1216 May 2014.

Islam, Peacebuilding and the Gulen Movement, The Belfast International Social Science Conference, the School of Law, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, 2 May 2014.

Islam, Secularism, Equal Citizenship, International Conference of Religion, Citizenship and Security, Institute for Global Engagement and the al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 5-6 December 2013.

State-Religion Arrangements in Euro-Islamic Relationship, International Seminar on Religions and International Relations: State-Religions Arrangements in a Post-Western World. A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Freedom of Religion, ISPI, The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Autonomous Province of Trento, Trento, Italy, 17-18 October 2013.

Civil Society & Reform in Turkey, Conference on Markets, Civil Society, and Democratic Change in the Middle East, Hudson Institute, Washington DC, USA, 2 October 2013.

Sacred, Secular, and Freedom of Expression: A Muslim Perspective, Respect for the Sacred versus Freedom of Expression, John Carol University, Cleveland, Ohio / USA, Apr. 2013.

Contributions of the Hizmet Movement towards the Consolidation of Democracy in Turkey, Consolidating Multicultural Democracy, The 4th World Peace Forum (WPF), Bogor, Indonesia, Nov. 2012.

An Uneasy Mix: The State, Radicalism and Post-Islamism in Tajikistan, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans, USA, Nov. 2012.

Sacred, Secular, Twin Tolerations and the Hizmet, Ideal Human and Ideal Society in the Thought of M. Fethullah Gulen, Lahore, Pakistan, Nov. 2012.

The Role of Bridging and Linking Social Capital in the Gulen Movements Interculturalist Activities, Societe et medias dans le dialogue interculturel, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 2012.

Shariah in Secular Turkish Courts: An Analysis of the Encounters between Official and Unofficial Laws, The 2012 International Conference on Law and Society, Law and Society Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Jun. 2012.

Shatibi and Habermas in Harmony on Religion in the Public Sphere: Gulens Civil Islam and the Transformation of Turkish Political Islam, 3rd International Conference on Islam (ICI12), The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin-Madison / USA, Apr. 2012.

From Islamism to Non-Islamism: Turkish Faith-Based Civil Societys Transformative Influence on Islamism as an Inspiration to the Middle East, International Seminar: The Arab Spring: Region and India, New Delhi, India, Feb. 2012.

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