Dücane Cündioğlu

Dücane Cündioğlu (born January 21, 1962) is a Turkish philosopher and writer.

Life He was born in Üsküdar, Istanbul on January 21, 1962. He was involved in various political events during the politically turbulent period before the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. Due to these actions, he was convicted twice before he turned 18, was imprisoned as a political prisoner, and remained in prison for approximately four years.

His first writings were published under the title Letters from Taş Medrese in the newspaper Hergün. He learned Arabic, English, German, French, and Hebrew. During the late 1970s, while he was in prison, he began his writing career and later continued publishing articles in various magazines and newspapers. Starting in 1985, he worked in the field of publishing. He was a columnist for the newspaper Yeni Şafak for 13 years, ending this role on February 5, 2011. Afterwards, he withdrew into seclusion on Büyükada.

Beginning on April 2, 1980, his early writings addressed traditional religious sciences and modern critiques of these disciplines through fields such as logic, linguistics, and hermeneutics.

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