Mehmet Yavuz

Mehmet Yavuz (1973, Kâhta – 9 August 2019),[1] was a Kurdish politician and teacher in Turkey who led the Kurdish Islamist Free Cause Party from May 2018 until 7 October 2018.[1][2]

Mehmet Yavuz
Leader of the Free Cause Party
In office
22 May 2018 – 7 October 2018
Preceded byZekeriya Yapıcıoğlu
Succeeded byİshak Sağlam
Personal details
Born1973 (1973)
Kâhta
Died9 August 2019(2019-08-09) (aged 45–46)
Political partyFree Cause Party
Children4
Alma materSelçuk University

Biography

Born in 1973 in the town of Kâhta in Adıyaman Province, he graduated high school in the town before moving to Konya to study at the Selcuk University Faculty of Education. He subsequently worked as a teacher. In the 2000s, he was imprisoned for two years and later worked as a teacher in Şanlıurfa. He began his political life by writing for Doğruhaber and serving as the Deputy Chairman and Spokesperson for Hüda-Par.[1][3] In 2015, he criticized President Erdoğan for stating that no Kurdish issue existed in the country. Yavuz pointed at the fact that Kurdish was classified an 'unknown language' when spoken at the Grand National Assembly, lack of mother tongue education in Kurdish and stated that the constitution was fascist.[4] In 2018, he criticized the constitution again.[5]

Yavuz died from kidney cancer on 9 August 2019 in Diyarbakır.[6]

Electoral history

Yavuz ran unsuccessfully as an independent in 2015 in the electoral district of Şanlıurfa and received 0.9% of the vote share.[7]

ElectionDistrictVotes%Results
General elections, 2015Şanlıurfa6,5510.9%Not elected

References
  1. "HÜDA PAR Genel Başkan Yardımcısı Mehmet Yavuz hayatını kaybetti". Independent Turkish (in Turkish). 9 August 2019. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  2. "İşte Hüda - Par'ın yeni başkanı". Kurdistan24. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  3. "A distinguished politician in the history of Turkish politics: Mehmet Yavuz". Ilkha. 8 August 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  4. "Yavuz: Kürt sorunu vardır". Hürseda Haber (in Turkish). 21 March 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  5. "Yavuz: Kürt meselesini altı ayda çözeriz". Dogru Haber (in Turkish). 18 June 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  6. "Mehmet Yavuz has passed away". Ilkha. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  7. "Sandık Sonuçları ve Tutanaklar". sonuc.ysk.gov.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 April 2021.
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