Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu

Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu (born December 31, 1954 in Elmalı , Şarkışla , Sivas Province ; died March 25, 2009 in Göksun , Kahramanmaraş ) was a Turkish MP and chairman of the far-right Islamic Great Unity Party (BBP).

Life

Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu was born into a peasant family. He completed primary school in Elmalı and middle school in Şarkışla. From 1972 he studied veterinary medicine at Ankara University .

As a teenager, he joined the Gray Wolves , who call themselves “idealists”. In Ankara he was vice-chairman and later chairman of the idealist associations at the headquarters of the idealist associations. He joined the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and became an advisor to chairman Alparslan Türkeş . After the military coup in 1980 and the military seizure of power, he spent a total of 7.5 years in prison. After his imprisonment, he joined the successor party of the MHP, the “Nationalist Labor Party” (MÇP) and was elected as a member of the Turkish parliament in 1991 . In 1992 he left the party and in early 1993 founded the Great Unity Party , which he chaired. In the parliamentary elections of 1995, he was re-elected to the National Assembly on the basis of an electoral alliance with the motherland party. A few weeks later he left the party and returned to the BBP. In the 2007 elections , he left the BBP at short notice and was elected to parliament for the third time as an independent candidate in his constituency. A few days later he resumed his position as chairman of the BBP. After a campaign rally for the local elections in March 2009, he and five other inmates crashed on March 25, 2009 in a helicopter over an impassable mountain area. On March 27, after a search time of around 47 hours, rescue workers reached the snow-covered crash site in the province of Kahramanmaraş and in the following hours recovered the bodies of Yazıcıoğlu, the pilot and the other inmates.

Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu was married and had two children.

statement

• In 2005 Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu declared in view of attempts to lynch supporters of Abdullah Öcalan : “If the state does not guarantee the security of the people [...], the citizen must not stand back. The people have the right to ensure their own safety. "
• When his party's links to the masterminds behind the murder of Hrant Dink were revealed, Yazıcıoğlu declared that “international forces” were behind the murder.
• In view of the mockery of the murdered Hrant Dinks by the singers Ozan Arif and İsmail Türüt , Yazıcıoğlu stated that Arif had expressed national feelings against separatist and treacherous aspirations.
• In 2007, Yazıcıoğlu suspected that the United States and Israel were trying to establish a Jewish-Kurdish state in northern Iraq.

Web links

• Personal website Yazıcıoğlus

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report in the daily newspaper Radikal from September 8, 2005
2. ↑ reporting the news portal Habervitrini ( Memento of 31 March 2009 at the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Report from the news portal www.haber5.com ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.