Faik Bulut

Faik Bulut (born 1950, Kağızman, Kars) is a Kurdish journalist, historian, political commentator, and writer from Turkey.

Biography

Bulut was born in 1950 in Kağızman. He graduated from Gazi University in Ankara and started his career as a journalist in 1985.[1][2] Following the coup d'etat of March 12, 1971, he left Turkey and lived in various countries in the Middle East for 8 years.[3] Currently he is a public commentator for foreign TV channels and an investigative journalist for The Independent Turkish.[4] He speaks Turkish, Kurdish, English, Arabic and French.[5][1]

Views on Marco Polo

According to Faik Bulut, what Marco Polo wrote about Order of Assassins does not reflect the truth and what he told in his memoirs:

Hasan Sabbah has turned a valley and has never been in it before. had turned it into a garden full of unseen fruits. The most elegant palaces and mansions imaginable were built in it. And there were gutters where wine, milk, honey and water flowed freely. There were many of the world's most beautiful female concubines who could play all kinds of musical instruments well and sing, dance to enchant the beholder, and they believed that the Muslims of these regions were Paradise.

According to Bulut all of the above claims are false, and the opinions of other scientists also support him in this regard. According to Bulut, it had been 15 years since Alamut Castle was destroyed by Mongols at the time Marco Polo claimed to have gone there. Bulut emphasizes that Polo's writings are only legends he heard from sailors while in prison in Italy.[6][7]

Journalism

Bulut has published articles, participated in interviews, and been invited to TV & radio shows, such as CNN, BBC, The Independent Turkish, DW, and Sputnik News Turkey, referenced by many authors and post graduation thesis in Turkey and globally.[4][8][9][10][11][12]

Works

Faik Bulut researches Alevism, the Kurds, Palestine and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East and Islamic history, among other topics. Bulut has authored nearly 40 books; he has an h-index of 13 and an i10-index of 18. As of 2026, his writings has been cited by academic articles 642 times since 1994 according to Google Scholar.[13][1][14]

Alevism history

Middle East

Kurds

Islamic and Islamic organizations

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Faik Bulut Eserleri | idefix". Archived from the original on 2018-06-11. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  2. ↑ Palestine Dream, Faik Bulut
  3. ↑ "Faik Bulut". www.biyografya.com. Retrieved 2026-03-26.
  4. 1 2 "Faik Bulut". Independent Türkçe (in Turkish). Retrieved 2026-03-26.
  5. ↑ "Faik Bulut – Kor Kitap".
  6. ↑ Bulut, Faik, Hasan Sabbah Truth, Berfin Publishing, 2014.
  7. ↑ Prof. Dr. Altan Çetin, Doç. Dr. Nihat Yazılıtaş, Faik Bulut (2014-02-06). Öteki Gündem - Haşhaşiler ve Sırları [Order of Assassins and Their Secrets] (in Turkish). CNN Turk.
  8. ↑ "Turkey's militant minority". 21 November 2003.
  9. ↑ "Avrupa | Suudi Kralı Türkiye'de" [Saudi King in Turkey] (in Turkish). BBC Turkish. 8 August 2006. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
  10. ↑ Rubin, Barry M. (2010). Guide to Islamist Movements. ISBN 9780765641380.
  11. ↑ "Transcripts: Interview with Abdullah Gul, Aired November 25, 2003". CNN. 2003-11-25. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
  12. ↑ ""Avrupa'daki terör tehdidi ciddi" | DW | 04.07.2007". Deutsche Welle.
  13. ↑ "Faik Bulut".
  14. ↑ "Eşitlikçi Dervişan Cumhuriyetleri ve Hasan Sabbah Gerçeği - Faik Bulut". 10 May 2009.
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