Remzi Çayır is a Turkish far-right politician and the founder and leader of the National Path Party.
Personal life edit
He was born on 1 January 1959, in the Abbaslar village of Kahramanmaraş Province. Before the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, he was arrested in 1979 and imprisoned for his Idealist activities while he was a student at Ankara University Faculty of Science. He received a degree in economics while in prison. He was released from prison in 1991.[1]
He was a friend of Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu and took part in assisting Yazıcıoğlu in the establishment process of the Great Unity Party. He participated in the court case of the murder of Yazıcıoğlu.[2] During the assassination of Sinan Ateş, he said that the killers of Ateş were the same ones who killed Yazıcıoğlu.[3]
He became a candidate for the mayor of Ankara as a member of the BBP in the 2014 local elections.[4] He left the BBP in 2018 after serving in the party's leadership for 25 years.[5] Shortly after leaving the BBP, he survived an assassination attempt.[6] He founded the National Path Party in 2021.[7] He is a critic of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[8][7]
References edit
- ^ "Milli Yol Partisi ve Remzi Çayır..." Yeniçağ Gazetesi (in Turkish). 7 March 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ Duvar, Gazete (14 February 2022). "Milli Yol Partisi'nden Yazıcıoğlu davasında açıklama: Bu tuhaflığa son verilmeli" (in Turkish). Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ "Remzi Çayır'dan Sinan Ateş açıklaması - Çağdaş Kocaeli Gazetesi". www.cagdaskocaeli.com.tr. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ "BBP ANKARA BÜYÜKŞEHİR BELEDİYE BAŞKAN ADAYI ÇAYIR: "ANKARA'YI AYAĞA KALDIRACAĞIZ"". Milliyet (in Turkish). 18 February 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ İHA. "Remzi Çayır BBP'den istifa etti". CNN TÜRK (in Turkish). Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ Odatv (7 November 2018). "BBP'de işe silah karıştı". Odatv (in Turkish). Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ a b Habertürk. "Milli Yol Hareketi Sözcüsü Çayır: "Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu'na yapılan bir suikasttır" - Balıkesir Haberleri". Habertürk (in Turkish). Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ "Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu'nun yol arkadaşı Remzi Çayır Sinan Oğan'a seslendi". Yeniçağ Gazetesi (in Turkish). 22 May 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2024.