Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu
Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu | |
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1st Leader of Great Union Party | |
In office 29 January 1993 – 25 March 2009 | |
Succeeded by | Yalçın Topçu |
Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
In office 22 July 2007 – 25 March 2009 | |
In office 20 October 1991 – 18 April 1999 | |
Constituency | Sivas (1991, 1995, 2007) |
Personal details | |
Born | (1954-12-31)December 31, 1954 Şarkışla, Sivas Province, Turkey |
Died | March 25, 2009(2009-03-25) (aged 54) Göksun, Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey |
Political party | Nationalist Movement Party (1977–1980) Nationalist Task Party (1987–1993) Great Unity Party (1993–2009) |
Spouse | Gülefer Yazıcıoğlu |
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Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu (December 31, 1954 – March 25, 2009) was a Turkish politician and member of the Parliament of Turkey. He was the leader and founder of the Great Union Party (BBP), a far-right, nationalist-Islamist political party.[1][2]
Biography
Yazıcıoğlu was born 1954 in a small village named Elmalı in Şarkışla of Sivas Province. He studied in Şarkışla from primary school to high school after that he was educated at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Ankara University. He was a member of the ultranationalist Grey Wolves. After the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, Yazıcıoğlu was arrested for being one of the leaders of Grey Wolves. He stayed for seven years in prison until his release in 1987. In the following years, Yazıcıoğlu was involved in politics as a member of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party. In 1991, he and some of his fellows left this movement and established a new political party called Great Union Party with a more Islamist ideology.
His party has been represented in the Parliament only via electoral coalitions with popular parties. At the 2002 legislative elections, the party won 1.1% of the popular vote and no seats; in the 2007 elections Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu was elected as an independent.
Death
Yazıcıoğlu died on March 25, 2009, in a helicopter crash[1][2] in the southern Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş, after a political rally there on the way to the next rally in Yozgat just four days before the local elections. The pilot and three other passengers also died in the accident. After the crash, Ismail Güneş who was one of the passengers, called the Turkish emergency service number 112 and was able to talk to the dispatcher clearly.[3]
Yazıcıoğlu received a state funeral to which most of the party leaders attended.[4] Thousands of people joined his funeral ceremony in Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara. After his death, in the 2009 local elections the BBP's candidate was elected as the new mayor of Sivas.[5]
References
- Helicopter crash in Turkey kills six
- ^ a b "Turkey's Grand Unity Party leader Muhsin Yazicioglu feared dead in helicopter crash". The Australian. 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2009-03-27.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "Turkey's BBP confirms Yazicioglu also died in copter crash". WB News Desk. World Bulletin. 2009-03-28. Retrieved 2009-03-28.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "İsmail Güneş'in son sözleri: Ölmek üzereyim..." Sabah.com.tr. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
- ^ Backes, Uwe; Moreau, Patrick (2012). Die völkisch-religiöse Bewegung im Nationalsozialismus: eine Beziehungs- und Konfliktgeschichte. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 9783525369227.
- ^ "SİVAS SEÇİM SONUÇLARI". secim.haberler.com. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
Party political offices | ||
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Preceded by founder | Leader of the Great Union Party (BBP) Jan 29, 1993–Mar 25, 2009 | Succeeded by |
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- 9 September Front
- Association for Defence of National Rights
- Alperen Hearths
- Atsız Youth
- Black Gang
- Counter-Guerrilla
- Deep State
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- Kuva-yi Milliye
- Ottoman Hearths
- Peace at Home Council
- Turkish Revenge Brigade
- Turkish Hearths
- Turkish Resistance Organisation
- Turkists of Gebze
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- Youth Union of Turkey
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parties
- Young Turks (Ottoman Empire)
- Committee of Union and Progress (Ottoman Empire)
- Republican People's Party (1923–1944)
- Nation Party (1948)
- Republican Villagers Nation Party
- Nation Party (1962)
- Nationalist Movement Party
- Nation Party (1992)
- Workers' Party (left-wing)
- Great Unity Party
- Bright Turkey Party
- Independent Turkey Party
- Homeland Party
- People's Ascent Party
- Nationalist and Conservative Party
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- National Party
- Patriotic Party
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- Ziya Gökalp
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- Enver Pasha
- Kâzım Karabekir
- Ali Suavi
- Ömer Seyfettin
- Noman Çelebicihan
- Mehmet Emin Yurdakul
- Yusuf Akçura
- Ali bey Huseynzade
- Ahmet Ağaoğlu
- Zeki Velidi Togan
- Rıza Nur
- Papa Eftim I
- Nihal Atsız
- Nejdet Sançar
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Peyami Safa
- Mahmut Esat Bozkurt
- Alparslan Türkeş
- Abulfaz Elchibey
- Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu
- Namık Kemal
- Gün Sazak
- Attilâ İlhan
- Doğu Perinçek
- Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu
- Kemal Kerinçsiz
- Meral Akşener
- Yusuf Halaçoğlu
- Ümit Özdağ
- Sinan Oğan
- Bülent Ecevit
events
- Adana massacre
- Hamidian massacres
- 1913 Ottoman coup d'état
- Greek genocide
- Armenian genocide
- Assyrian genocide
- Deportations of Kurds
- Turkish War of Independence
- Elza Niego affair
- Zilan massacre
- 1934 Thrace pogroms
- Dersim massacre
- Racism-Turanism trials
- Istanbul pogrom
- Battle of Tillyria
- 1957 arson attack at Tahtakale
- Sivas massacre
- Expulsion of Greeks from Istanbul
- Turkish invasion of Cyprus
- Beyazıt massacre
- Political violence in Turkey
- Maraş massacre
- Assassination of Kemal Türkler
- 1995 Azerbaijani coup d'état attempt
- Zirve Publishing House murders
- Gezi Park protests
- Assassination of Hrant Dink
- Alfortville Armenian Genocide Memorial bombings
- 2005 Istanbul pogrom exhibition assault
- Murder of Deniz Poyraz
- Atatürk's reforms
- Turkish History Thesis
- Place name changes
- Öztürkçe
- Language reform
- Animal name changes
- 1934 Resettlement Law
- Varlık Vergisi
- The Twenty Classes
- Citizen, speak Turkish!
- Confiscation of Armenian property
- Surname Law
- Denial of Kurds by Turkey
- Article 301
- How happy is the one who says I am a Turk
- Sovereignty unconditionally belongs to the Nation
- Armenian genocide denial
- Şehitler ölmez vatan bölünmez!