| Adil Ozdemir and Kenneth Frank, and their families, have been sharing with each other in Muslim-Christian dialogue in Turkey since 1982. Through their friendship, conversation, study, and reflection they have become insightful, first-hand observers of Islam in modern Turkey. Both have been interpreting Islam to interested audiences and hundreds of visitors to Turkey over the past several years. | |
Adil Ozdemir |
Adil served in Turkey's Department of Religious Affairs as a local religious functionary for four years before his academic career. In 1979-80 he won a scholarship to study at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. In 1986-87, Adil was a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions. Then in 1994-95, as an interpreter of Islam, he was invited to tour several seminaries of the United Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ in the USA. He is currently lecturing at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Adil and his wife, Fatma, have four daughters. |
Kenneth Frank |
Ken is a missionary of the Common Global Ministries Board of the United Church of Christ/Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the USA. He has had extensive cross-cultural experience, including eight years of educational work in Zambia in the 1970s and in Turkey since 1982. He served for many years as a mathematics instructor, and then as director, at the Izmir Amerikan Lisesi (American Collegiate Institute) in Izmir, Turkey. Ken and his wife, Betty, are Joint General Secretaries of the American Board in Turkey. They have a daughter and a son. |
