introduced to Doğu Perinçek, a self-proclaimed socialist politician with heavy nationalist undertones, who was the editor of the magazine 2000'e Doğru (Towards 2000). Dursun contributed to the magazine with a column titled "Din Bilgisi" (Knowledge of religion). He also wrote for other publications such as Saçak, Teori and Yüzyıl. He wrote countless books in the 1980s, including a Turkish translation of Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah, collating his vast knowledge of Islam and languages of the Middle East, opening the religion to internal criticism through the mass media, perhaps for the first time in the religion's history. Assassination On 4 September 1990, shortly after leaving his home in the Asian part of Istanbul on his way to work, Dursun was assassinated by two gunmen. He was hit by seven bullets. As a result of the investigation, 15 suspects were arrested but they were immediately released after their first appearance in court. In 1996, İrfan Çağırıcı was arrested, suspected of being involved in the assassination of Dursun, as well as the killing of journalist Çetin Emeç in March 1990 and the kidnapping of Akbar Ghorbani (the People's Mujahedin of Iran's representative in Ankara). It was reported at Çağırıcı's trial that he had links with the Iranian government and was trained in Iranian camps. Çağırıcı (codenamed "Mesut") was a member of İslami Hareket Örgütü (English: "Islamic Movement Organisation" or "Islamic Action Group") and gave the order to murder Dursun for "humiliating the Quran". He was sentenced to death, and four co-defendants were imprisoned for life in July 2000; upon appeal, Çağırıcı's death penalty was also converted to life imprisonment in March 2002. However, the gunman who carried out the order, Muzaffer Dalmaz, is still at large abroad. Books Allah (Turkish: Allah) This is Religion 1: God and the Quran (Turkish: Din Bu 1: Tanrı ve Kur'an) This is Religion 2: Muhammad (Turkish: Din Bu 2: Hz. Muhammed) This is Religion 3: Society and Secularism in Islam (Turkish: Din Bu 3: İslamda Toplum ve Laiklik) This is Religion 4: Taboo Lingers (Turkish: Din Bu 4: Tabu Can Çekişiyor) Religion and Sexuality (Turkish: Din ve Cinsellik) Prayer (Turkish: Dua) Is the Universe a Joke? (Turkish: Evren Bir Şaka mı?) Qullatayn (Turkish: Kulleteyn) Quran (Turkish: Kur'an) Encyclopaedia of the Quran 1: Aba-Mind (Turkish: Kur'an Ansiklopedisi 1: Aba-Akıl) Encyclopaedia of the Quran 2: Accra-Arab (Turkish: Kur'an Ansiklopedisi 2: Akra-Arab) Encyclopaedia of the Quran 3: Arabu-Debt (Turkish: Kur'an Ansiklopedisi