143 The Caliphate

Some Islamists aimed to revive the Caliphate, abolished by Atatürk in 1924, as a community of all Muslims. An internationalist or pan-Islamic objective, however, could have divergent political meanings. According to Mohammed Metin Kaplan, the Caliph of Cologne, and his journal Ümmet-I Muhammed (the Nation of Mohammed), the first step in this direction was to establish an Islamic regime in Turkey through revolution. In 2004 Kaplan was extradited to Turkey by Germany and has been imprisoned there ever since.

Ümmet-i Muhammed [the Community of Mohammed]
Düsseldorf, 1994; also published as Asr-i Saadet [Time of Blessedness]
Periodical, vol 5, no 97, 33 x 49

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