Necla Kelek

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Full Name	Necla Kelek
Occupation	Sociologist
Date Of Birth	Dec 31, 1957(1957-12-31)
Age	67
Birthplace	Istanbul
Country	Turkey
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Necla Kelek Biography

Necla Kelek is one of the most popular and richest Sociologist who was born on December 31, 1957 in Istanbul, Turkey. Necla Kelek, pronounced [‘nedZla ’kelek] – born December 31, 1957, is a German-born feminist and social scientist. She holds a doctorate in this area, having been originally from Turkey. From 1999 to 2004, she gave lectures at the Evangelische Fachhochschule fur Sozialpadagogik in Hamburg on migration sociology.

Kelek reached a completely different conclusion three years later. In 2005, Kelek’s book Die fremde Braut, she combined autobiography, stories from Turkish women and literary forms with scientific findings. Her conclusion was that integration could be hindered by Turkish tradition and Islamic religion. Her book reveals that many young Germans who were born in Germany during the separation phase of their life were married to their parents in Turkey to either a bride or groom and brought back to Germany. In order to make integration more difficult in Germany, it was deliberately made harder. Kelek illustrated this by citing the example of “Gelin”, a Turkish bride who was brought to Germany as an arranged marriage. She had no chance or preconditions for integration into German society. Kelek described this phenomenon by talking to Turkish women she met in mosques and privately in Germany.

Alice Schwarzer defended Necla Kelek against the criticism in an article in the FAZ of February 11, 2006, which was re-printed in the feminist monthly Emma; she had bravely broken the silence about a societal taboo. Schwarzer associated this statement with strong personal criticism of the authors of the open letter: Yasemin Karakasoglu is “very, very closely allied with the Islamic scene in Germany”; Mark Terkessidis is merely a self-promoter, and “has little to do with understanding of the world”.

There was considerable media reaction. In the daily, conservative newspapers Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Welt, articles appeared which clearly took sides for Kelek’s positions. The daily, left-wing newspaper Die Tageszeitung gave adjacent space to a sharp critic of Kelek and to Kelek herself. After that, only negative articles appeared in the taz. Various statements also appeared in the liberal Frankfurter Rundschau, including a guest article by Rahel Volz of Terre des Femmes, which supported Kelek in many respects, as well as an article by Mark Terkessidis, who defended the “petition”, as one of its authors. The NZZ of February 11, 2006 was rather critical of both sides. The FAZ of February 9, 2006, faulted the “petition of 60 migration researchers” for the fact that only one fifth of the social scientists worked in the field of migration research about the Turks.

The bestseller Die fremde Braut was widely praised by critics and became a huge success. Although the book’s emotionality was praised by reviewers as a strength, there was clear criticism of its sweeping statements regarding the Turkish Muslim population. Alexandra Senfft, a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), reviewed the book on May 31, 2005. She mixed praise with criticism. Kelek received the famed Geschwister-Scholl-Preis for Die fremde Braut, a prize which is awarded to a current book that shows intellectual independence and supports civil freedom, moral, intellectual, and aesthetic courage, and that gives an important impulse to the present awareness of responsibility. Heribert Pratl, former prosecutor and head of the Suddeutsche Zeitung’s domestic policy department, gave the laudatory speech.

Necla Kelek Net Worth

Necla Kelek is one of the richest Sociologist from Turkey. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Necla Kelek 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Necla Kelek began her training as an engineer draftsman. She studied sociology and economy in Hamburg later. She was employed in a Turkish travel agency in Hamburg and an engineering office in Wiesbaden. Her family disowned her because they didn’t want her to be independent. In 2001, she received her doctoral degree. Her thesis was about the coming of age for women in Islam.

Necla Kelek was awarded her doctorate in Islamische Religiositat and ihre Bedeutung in the Lebenswelt von Schulerinnen & Schulern turkischer Heimat. This book, Islam im Alltag, was published in 2002. She came to the conclusion, “Schoolchildren learn Islam individually, adapt it to suit their needs and use it as their identity.” Their Islamic religiousness does not hinder integration but is a catalyst for cultural change.

The Turkish press, especially, attacks Kelek again and again: Feminists like Kelek, Seyran Ateş, Sonja Fatma Bläser, and Serap Çileli are accused of “exaggeration”. Most women are supposedly not exposed to male control, and live in freedom. Until the middle of 2005, this was also the editorial guideline of the liberal-conservative daily paper, Hürriyet, which is very influential among the Turkish people living in Germany: According to a study of the Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung (Society for Consumer Research, GfK) from 2002, forty percent of them had read this paper in the past two weeks. On May 22, 2005, “Hürriyet” started a Germany-wide campaign “against domestic violence”. The discussion events in the large German cities got a large response, although the feminists who had previously been attacked refused to participate.

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Kelek’s research subject is the parallel society characterized by Islam in Germany. In 2011, she said: “Being a Muslim is becoming a self-sufficient identity. And this identity consists only of being different — different from the Europeans, different from the Africans, different from the Indians. And this frightens me. [Others] do not state their difference in terms of an utter rejection of the society that hosts them, preparing to take over one day. I often hear those Muslim youngsters bragging that one day, this country will be theirs.” She also criticizes those who see themselves as victims, saying: “Today, the Turks, or Muslims, are given full access to civil rights, to democracy and liberty — and they reject all that. They have access to good education, health care, social welfare, but they voluntarily choose to keep out, to stagnate in parallel worlds. […] How can they still consider themselves as victims, as the Jews once were in reality?”

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Top Facts about Necla Kelek

1. Necla Kelek is a Turkish-German feminist and social scientist.
2. She was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1957.
3. Kelek has written several books on Islam and integration in Germany.
4. Her book “Die fremde Braut” (The Foreign Bride) became a bestseller.
5. Kelek advocates for women’s rights within Muslim communities.
6. She has been criticized by some for her views on Islam and immigration.
7. In 2006, she received the Bundesverdienstkreuz, Germany’s highest civilian honor.
8. Kelek has worked as a journalist and lecturer at various universities.
9. She is known for her outspokenness on controversial issues related to Islam and immigration.
10. Kelek currently lives in Berlin, Germany with her family.