Feridun Yazar

Feridun Yazar (1944 in Urfa - 12 June 2016) was the president of the political party HEP from 1991 to 1992. He worked as an attorney but was also involved in politics and was charged with being a member of the Revolutionary Cultural Eastern Hearths (DDKO).[1] He was in prison until 1974 when he was granted an amnesty.[1] He stayed in politics with the CHP.[1] He was mayor of Urfa for the CHP in the years 1977–80.[2] He was dismissed as mayor after the military coup 1980 and arrested for two years.[1] After his release he returned into politics with the SHP.[1] He became provincial chair for Urfa in 1988 but resigned from the party due to the dismissals from fellow Kurdish MPs.[1] He then became the President of the HEP.[1] He later was sent again to prison for propagandizing against the indivisibility of the state in the year 1998.[1] In the congress of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) of October 2015, he was elected into the parties academic political advisory board.[3] On 1 November 2015 he was a candidate for MP for Urfa the HDP, but he was not elected. He died on 12 June 2016.[1]