a senior visiting fellow at Wellesley College, and since 2018 has been senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Intelligent design advocacy Akyol used to be an outspoken promoter of intelligent design and was identified as a former spokesman for Science Research Foundation (Bilim Araştırma Vakfı), an Islamic creationist group, started by Adnan Oktar. Akyol later noted that he had ended all his "cooperation with [Bilim Araştırma Vakfı]... due to some serious disagreements on issues other than intelligent design." He was also affiliated with the Discovery Institute. He has testified in the Kansas evolution hearings in favor of introducing intelligent design and arranged a government-sponsored intelligent design conference in Istanbul. In 2019, he said he changed his mind, noting that "the theory of evolution is perfectly compatible with the faith." Works References External links Yes, We Can! Toward a Brave New Turkey - Mustafa Akyol discusses Turkey's historical and contemporary struggle toward political and cultural modernity at Boston University's 2009 Campagna-Kerven Lecture on Modern Turkey. 1972 births Living people Turkish columnists Turkish people of Abkhazian descent Radikal (newspaper) people Muslim reformers