István Csurka

István Csurka (June 2011)

István Csurka [ 'iʃtvaːn t͡ʃurkɒ ] (born March 27, 1934 in Budapest ; † February 4, 2012 ) was a Hungarian journalist , writer and politician from the nationalist and right-wing conservative party spectrum.

Act

Csurka took part in the establishment of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF), for which he was elected to the Hungarian parliament in the first free election after the fall of the communist government and of which he was also a member. In 1993 he left the MDF and from October 1994 was chairman of the small Hungarian party MIÉP (Hungarian Truth and Life Party ), which defined itself as a radical national-conservative group. Csurka, who was interned for a few months after the Hungarian uprising in 1956, is also said to have worked as an informer for the secret police.

Csurka himself regularly attracted attention through verbal anti-Semitism and saw himself as a representative of the approximately three million Hungarians who were separated from the Hungarian state association by the Trianon Peace Treaty (1920).

In the past few years, suspicions have been voiced that he is aiming for cooperation with the center-right party “League of Young Democrats” ( Fidesz ). Its chairman Viktor Orbán has publicly denied and rejected this several times and even as prime minister (until 2002) did not accept any parliamentary support.

Csurka died in hospital on February 4, 2012 after a long illness.

Web links

Literature by and about István Csurka in the catalog of the German National Library
MIÉP party website, 2006 (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

^ Hungarian right-wing extremist Csurka has died ( memento of March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in Kleine Zeitung of February 4, 2012
^ Andreas Schmidt-Schweitzer, Political History of Hungary from 1985 to 2002, Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 2007, page 208, ISBN 978-3-486-57886-7 .
^ Hungarian right-wing extremist Csurka died in Pester Lloyd on February 4, 2012, accessed on February 12, 2012.

personal data
SURNAME	Csurka, István
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest
DATE OF DEATH	4th February 2012

[1] Hungarian right-wing extremist Csurka has died ( memento of March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in Kleine Zeitung of February 4, 2012

[2] Andreas Schmidt-Schweitzer, Political History of Hungary from 1985 to 2002, Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 2007, page 208, ISBN 978-3-486-57886-7 .

[3] Hungarian right-wing extremist Csurka died in Pester Lloyd on February 4, 2012, accessed on February 12, 2012.