Mehmed Şevket Eygi

Mehmed Şevket Eygi (7 February 1933, Ereğli - 12 July 2019, Istanbul), Turkish journalist, article author and columnist.
Mehmet Şevket Eygi was born on February 7, 1933 in Ereğli district of Zonguldak as the only child of his family. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Galatasaray High School. Abdi İpekçi, Mümtaz Soysal, Turgay Şeren and Memduh Gökçen became his school friends in Galatasaray High School. Şevket Eygi learned excellent French at Galatsaray High School and took lessons from important teachers such as Orhan Şaik Gökyay, Nihat Sami Banarlı and Ahmet Kutsi Tecer.</ref> He studied here with Cemal Süreya and Sezai Karakoç. While studying at the Faculty, he worked as a translator at the French Cultural Center in Ankara. After graduating from university in 1956, he worked as a translator at the Directorate of Religious Affairs for two years. He worked as the private secretary of Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen for a while.Babıali'nin renkli siması: Mehmed Şevket Eygi
Eygi, who had been interested in journalism since his childhood, had his mother read the magazines Afacan and Çocuk, which he subscribed to when he was 6 years old, and started to publish a magazine called Islam with 10 other friends in 1957. He started publishing the daily Today newspaper in 1966. In order to go on pilgrimage to Mecca in 1969 he left Turkey. He lived in Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Germany for six years due to the lawsuits against him. His articles were published in various publications including Son Havadis and Son Çağrı after the closure of Today newspaper and weekly Yeni İstiklal and Büyük Gazete, which he published after returning to Turkey in 1974. From 1991 until his death, he wrote his articles in the column titled "Leaves from the Calendar" in Millî Gazete. 
Eygi passed away at 22:30 in the hospital where he was treated for heart disease in Istanbul on 12 July 2019.Mehmed Şevket Eygi vefat etti He was buried in the Merkez Efendi cemetery after his funeral prayer in Fatih Mosque, Istanbul on 13 July 2019. Amongst those who attended his funeral were President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül, Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank, Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism Ahmet Halûk Dursun, Chairman of the Felicity Party Temel Karamollaoğlu, Vice President of the Justice and Development Party Numan Kurtulmuş, Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın, Binali Yıldırım, ministers, some members of parliament, journalists and many citizens.Mehmed Şevket Eygi'nin cenazesi toprağa verildi Eygi was never married and has no children.
Among the topics he generally touched upon were: Sabbatai Zevi, the Ottoman period, Sufi life, the backwardness of Muslims, anti-madhhab and bid’ah movements within Islam, interfaith dialogue and criticism against them.
An excerpt from one of the columns he wrote in Millî Gazete titled "Who are the Certain Pakradunis?":
Eygi claimed he was the instigator of the events referred to in the non-fictional biography work Mr. Pipo written by Soner Yalçın. Eygi filed a criminal complaint against the author and the publisher, and won the case.
Some of his works are as follows:
*The Backbiting Illness
*Islamic Topics
*A Few Articles
*Praying Correctly
*Jewish Turks or Sabetaists
*I Am Defending the Ahl al-Sunnah
Category:Turkish journalists
Category:Turkish columnists
Category:1993 births