Özel published Halkın Dostları magazine with Ataol Behramoğlu.
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In Three Problems: Technology, Civilization and Alienation and in To Speak in Difficult Times and also It Is Prohibited to Eat the Stones, Özel argues that mankind is from an acute alienation which is a result of destructive technology, artificial division of man and nature, and the enlightened principles of Islam which emphasize the synthesis of the sacred and the profane is the only medicine available for this disease.
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In 1970, he published Halkın Dostları review with Ataol Behramoğlu.