Career
Abdülkerim was born to Fuat (later Fuat Savaşkan), a Sufi figure known in tariqat circles as Hajji Fuad ar-Rabbani. He attended the khutbah by Shaykh Nazim at Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque in Famagusta and later became a disciple. In November 1973, he joined the Turkish Resistance Organisation and fought around Varosha, Famagusta during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
He undertook charity work in New York City, mostly rehabilitation of drug addicts. In 2002, he founded the Osmanlı Dergâhı, a zawiya located in Catskill Mountains, New York. Abdülkerim died of heart attack during a visit to his dargah in Lefke.
He is interred at the Osmanlı Cemetery in Famagusta.
