Abstract:

This study deals with Sezai Karakoç's political thoughts within the framework of his views on the individual, society and the state. Sezai Karakoç is one of the important thinkers in the Islamist movement, which has gained strength since the 1960s in Turkey. The thought of Islamism, which generally adopts a critical attitude towards the Western modernization experience, aims to understand Islam as a whole and to dominate social and political life. When Karakoç's ideas are considered in this context, he shares the political vision of Islamism. Karakoç adopts Islam as an ontological security field for the individual. In terms of social life and state organization, it accepts Islamic rules as the basic determining norms. Karakoç expresses his political ideas from a civilizationist point of view. In this context, the concept of Islamic civilization can be read as the headline of his political ideas. Karakoç interprets Islamic civilization on the basis of a contrast with Western civilization. Karakoç's main aim is to strengthen the Islamic civilization against the Western civilization. In this way, he thinks that both Islamic societies and all humanity will get rid of the negative situations they are in today. In this context, he attaches importance to the unity of Islamic societies, which are divided into separate national societies and separate political organizations, and proposes a confederation of Islamic states. The study deals with Karakoç's political ideas, briefly expressed above, with the method of critical literature review based on primary and secondary sources. Karakoç's political thoughts center the current socio-political problems. However, his social and political suggestions are far from sociological and political realities. As a result, it can be said that Karakoç's political ideas have a moralistic and idealistic nature.