Zübeyir Aydar

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Zübeyir Aydar (* 1961 in the Pervari district of the Siirt province ) is a former Kurdish member of the Turkish parliament and chairman of Kongra Gel , the political arm and "parliament" of the Kurdistan Workers' Party . In the Turkish press “Behzat” is mentioned as his code name.

Life

Aydar was born in Siirt Province in 1961 and later studied law at the Faculty of Law at Istanbul University . After completing his studies, he worked as a lawyer and headed the Human Rights Association ( IHD ) in Siirt . He joined the social democrat Halkçı Parti (SHP) and founded the Kurdish Halkın Emek Partisi (Party of People's Labor, HEP) in 1990 with politicians who had left the SHP . Due to an electoral alliance with the SHP, Aydar was elected as a member of parliament in 1991 . After the election and because of a threatened party ban, he switched to the “Party of Democracy” (DEP). After the lifting of his immunity by a decision of the parliament in March 1994 and the rejection of a repeal of the parliamentary decision by the Constitutional Court , Aydar left Turkey and settled in Belgium. From there he led - after some renaming - the so-called “People's Congress Kurdistan”, an organization that is supposed to take over the function of parliament in the thinking of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. This “parliament” meets once a year in the Kandil Mountains , a mountain region in northern Iraq controlled by the PKK. On October 14, 2009, the US Treasury Department's Foreign Investment Control Bureau decided to freeze the assets of Aydar, Rıza Altun and Murat Karayılan . The decision identifies Aydar as an important person in the foreign drug trade . Aydar was arrested with several others during a raid by the Belgian police against the PKK and Roj TV in early March 2010, but then released after three weeks due to lack of evidence.

Zübeyir Aydar was married to Evin Çiçek . The couple have two children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the State Security Court in Ankara for a violation of Art. 125 tStGB old version
  2. ↑ Cancellation request according to Art. 85 of the Turkish Constitution; Rejection on March 21, 1994 (main number: 1994/6; judgment number: 1994/25)
  3. ^ Office of the US Treasury Department for the Control of Foreign Investments (OFAC): Treasury Designates Three Leaders of the Kongra-Gel as Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers. United States Department of the Treasury , October 14, 2009, p. 1 , accessed October 14, 2009 .
  4. ^ Belgian police arrest 8 PKK suspects, including leaders Aydar and Kartal ( memento of March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), online article by Todays Zaman, accessed on March 9, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Aydar, Zübeyir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish member of the Turkish parliament
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bervari County, Siirt Province, Turkey