Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu
Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu | |
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President of Great Union Party | |
In office 29 January 1993 – 25 March 2009 | |
Succeeded by | Yalçın Topçu |
Personal details | |
Born |
Şarkışla, Turkey | 31 December 1954
Died |
25 March 2009 54) Göksun, Turkey | (aged
Political party | Great Union Party |
Spouse(s) | Gülefer Yazıcıoğlu |
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 right-wing, nationalist-Islamist political party.[1][2]
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 Grey Wolves struggling for fascism during the 1970s. After 1980 Turkish coup d'état, he was arrested for being one of the leaders of Grey Wolves. He stayed for 7 years in prison. After the years of imprisonment, he was released in 1987 by being cleared of blame. In the following years, he involved in politics under Nationalist Movement Party. In 1991, he and some of his fellows left this movement and established a new political party called Great Union Party next year.
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.
Yazıcıoğlu died on March 25, 2009, in a helicopter crash[1][2] in the south-eastern 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. Thousands of people joined his funeral ceremony in Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara. After his death in 2009 local elections the BBP's candidate was elected as the new mayor of Sivas.
Conspiracy Theories about Accident
After helicopter fell journalist Ismail Güneş who was one of passenger called 112 Emergency Service he was able to exsplain how helicopter fell. He was able to talk by 112 properly so this crash became look like assassination. According to Forensic Science his chin has broken after crash. Locals and soldiers were searching for corpses. After 48 hours bodys could be reached.
One of Turkish Magazine that called Aksiyon Magazine also published a special file on the blood of the deceased that there was carbon monoxide before the helicopter fell. According to Köksal Akpınar, it is proved that the carbon monoxide values in the blood of Pilot Kaya İstekte and journalist İsmail Güneş are much higher when the helicopter drops. The prosecution of carbon monoxide in the blood of those killed, stands on the jet exhaust gases to occur.
There is a tap that illustrates while Sergeant Aydın Özsıcak was dismantiling the GPS of helicopter. This tap denied by Turkish President Erdogan After military coup Erdogan publish that video because Aydın Özsıcak was one of segeant who had conlift by Erdogan during coup. Today reasion of accident still a mystery.[3]
References
Wikinews has related news: Helicopter crash in Turkey kills six |
- 1 2 "Turkey's Grand Unity Party leader Muhsin Yazicioglu feared dead in helicopter crash". Reuters. The Australian. 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
- 1 2 "Turkey's BBP confirms Yazicioglu also died in copter crash". WB News Desk. World Bulletin. 2009-03-28. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- ↑ tr:Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu
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 Yalçın Topçu |