Organised by the Mehmet Akif Ersoy Waqf for Thought and Art, an international symposium took place in Istanbul during the weekend 13-15 December 2013. The Honorary President of the EMU, Prof. Dr. Yalçıntaş and the President of the EMU, Abu Bakr Rieger were among the invited speakers
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Prof. Dr. Nevzat Yalçıntaş, Honorary President of the EMU
“We present here the talk of Mr. Rieger on Goethe as an outstanding intellectual and a visionary whose insights and work still are relevant in our time.”