Abdullah Aymaz

Abdullah Aymaz (b. 1949) is a Turkish Islamic preacher and writer. He was born in Kütahya, Turkey.

Life and achievements
Ayaz moved to Izmir as a teenager and visited the İzmir İmam Hatip high school. He did his higher education at İzmir Yüksek İslam Enstitüsü and he worked as a teacher in Tire and Izmir. His career as a journalist as well as a writer started in 1988 when he started to work for the Turkish newspaper Zaman.

Abdullah Aymaz was born on 1945, in Emet, Turkey. After studying at the primary school, he moved to Izmir, where he met with Turkish scholar and opinion leader Fethullah Gulen and Hizmet (Service) Movement, to study at religious vocational high school and Islamic Institute. During his time in high school, he wrote up articles for Gurbet magazine. He served as teacher and manager of educational foundations in several places of Izmir. In 1979, his religious and educational articles began to be published in Sızıntı magazine, which is the very first publication of Hizmet Movement. As of 1988, his journalism career commenced in Zaman newspaper, in which he also served as editor-in-chief until 1992. As writer, he published more than 50 books under the pen names of Huseyin Bayram, Ismail Yediler and Safvet Senih. Currently, his articles are still published in Zaman Europe.

In March 1997, he conveyed Fethullah Gülen's letter to Pope John Paul II. Since the days in Izmir, where Gülen's outstanding discourse began to crystallize, Abdullah Aymaz has become an integral part of him and the movement.