Huseyin Velioglu (1952, Gercüş - 17 January 2000, Beykoz) was the leader of the Turkish Hezbollah, a militant extremist organization in the early 1990s. Velioglu led one of the wings of this organization. He was killed in a police operation in Beykoz on 17 January 2000.
Huseyin Velioglu was of Kurdish origin[1] He was born as Hüseyin Durmaz in the province of Batman. He changed his last name in 1978. He studied at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Ankara. In 1980 he moved to Diyarbakir and in 1987 and was one of the founders of Turkish Hezbullah. When it came to disagreements within the organization, Velioglu belonged to the leader of the so called Ilim-wing. This wing was involved in the armed struggle to enforce their goal to overthrow the government and install an Islamic regime. While the Turkish Hezbollah was holding kidnapped businessmen in an apartment in Istanbul, the Turkish police stormed the apartment and Velioglu was killed.