Prof. Vergin died at home at the age of 80 on January 18, 2021. Born in Istanbul she was the daughter of Mahmut Conker, the son of Nuri Conker, a military commander-turned-politician who was a close friend of the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
A funeral was held on Tuesday in Istanbul for professor Nur Vergin, a sociology expert whose works shed light on religious life and politics in Turkey. Vergin, 80, was found dead at her Istanbul home. The cause of her death is not yet known, but authorities believe she died of natural causes.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as well as friends and relatives of Vergin attended the funeral prayers for the late professor at Merkezefendi Mosque in the city’s Zeytinburnu district. Vergin was an unpaid consultant for Erdoğan during the latter’s tenure as Istanbul's mayor in the 1990s. “I had the opportunity to have her company during my time as mayor. She was a real expert in finding overlaps in politics and sociology. I remember her most for her two quotes. She once said there were not ‘a whiter Turk’ than her but she never defended it. She also used to say that she was ‘a secular, but not secularist,” Erdoğan said.
Vergin had drawn the ire of her critics in the secular elite for justifying the overwhelming success of the ruling Justice and Development (AK Party) in the 2002 elections as a result of pressure on conservative circles in the country. Her remarks in a 2008 interview where she said the party would be in government in the next decade as well, something that ultimately proved correct, made her the target of a defamation campaign.
Mavi Boncuk |
Prof. Nur Vergin was born on September 21, 1941 in Istanbul. He spent his childhood and youth abroad and studied sociology at the Paris Sorbonne University. In 1973, returning to Turkey's Tax, 1 year after he started working at Istanbul University Faculty of Economics. He completed his associate professorship in Sociology in 1980, and worked for a period at the Faculty of Political Sciences of Istanbul University. Nur Vergin, who reached the title of professor with his work here, also worked as a lecturer at Marmara and Bilkent universities.
WORKS
Industrialization et Changement Social en Milieu Rural (1976)
Siyasetin Sosyolojisi | Sociology of Politics (1980)
Türkiye’ye Tanık Olmak | Turkey To Be Witness (1998)
Din, Toplum ve Siyasal Sistem | Religion, Society and Political System (2002)
Siyasetin Sosyolojisi – Kavramlar Tanımlar Yaklaşımlar | Sociology of Politics - Concepts Definitions Approaches (2003)
" Social scientist, political sociologist Prof. Dr. The expressions of the neighborhood pressure Nur Vergin experienced when he passed away the day before came to mind again. "The one who betrayed the neighborhood he came from," he said because he said that "the current government acts as a seatbelt against radical ideas and reduces the anger of the suburbs by linking the AK Party with the edge and the center!" The attacks on Vergin did not seem to fit neither science nor science nor humanity."
20 Ocak 2021, Çarşamba ŞEBNEM BURSALI Nur Vergin ve mahalle baskısı
