Hüseyin Velioğlu

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Huseyin Velioglu (1952 – 17 January 2000) 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.

Life

Huseyin Velioglu was born in Batman in 1952. He was of Kurdish origin^[1] He was born as Hüseyin Durmaz. 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, founded 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. However, this group is unrelated to Lebanese Hezbollah.^[2] Velioğlu was killed in a villa during the gun battle between people in the villa and police.^[2]

References

↑ Turkey and the War on Terror. For Thirty Years We Fought Alone. Publisher: Routledge, p. 61
↑ 2.0 2.1 Aydıntaşbaş, Aslı (June 2000). "Murder on the Bosphorus". Middle East Quarterly VII (2): 15–22. Retrieved 26 July 2012.

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Name	Velioglu, Huseyin
Alternative names
Short description	Kurdish Islamic activist
Date of birth	1952
Place of birth
Date of death	17 January 2000
Place of death

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