May 27, 2012
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Late BBP leader Yazıcıoğlu commemorated
The late Grand Unity Party leader was commemorated yesterday with a ceremony held at the Taceddin Dervish Lodge in Ankara.
26 March 2010 / TODAY’S ZAMAN WITH WIRES, İSTANBUL
The late Grand Unity Party (BBP) leader Mushin Yazıcıoğlu, who died in a tragic helicopter crash in southeastern Turkey last year, was commemorated yesterday in a ceremony marking the first anniversary of his death held at the Taceddin Dervish Lodge, where the late politician is buried.
The ceremony was attended by BBP leader Yalçın Topçu, Felicity Party (SP) head Numan Kurtulmuş, Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy Kürşat Tüzmen, Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy İlhan Kesici and Civil Servants’ Trade Union (Memur-Sen) President Ahmet Gündoğdu as well as Yazıcıoğlu’s family and hundreds of other people. Participants listened to recitations of the Holy Quran and prayed for the late BBP leader. Many participants wept during the emotional memorial. Speaking to reporters during the ceremony, his widow, Gülafer Yazıcıoğlu, said he was a man with a great heart and hence it is natural that he was loved that much.
A helicopter carrying Yazıcıoğlu and five other people crashed in Kahramanmaraş as they were returning from an election rally on March 25, 2009. The victims’ snow-covered bodies were eventually found by local villagers 72 hours after the crash.
The fact that the victims were found so many hours after the crash and that Yazıcıoğlu was a prominent pro-democracy figure triggered claims that the crash was the result of an assassination. A suspect in the trial of Ergenekon, a clandestine terrorist organization charged with plotting to overthrow the government, said last year that Yazıcıoğlu’s death was planned in 2008 by the Ergenekon gang. President Abdullah Gül ordered an investigation into the allegations.
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