Salih Mirzabeyoğlu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Turkish writer
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Place of Birth: Erzincan, Turkey
About Salih Mirzabeyoğlu
- Salih Mirzabeyoglu (real name Salih Izzet Erdis; 10 May 1950, in Erzincan – 16 May 2018, in Yalova) was a Turkish Islamic fundamentalist with Sayyid origin.
- His family were close to both the Naqshabandi and Nurcu Islamic brotherhoods, and were involved with the Kurdish Sheyh Seit rebellion in 1925 against the newly founded Turkish Republic.
- Like most IBDA-C members, he was of Kurdish ethnicity.In 1975, he and his friends published a political magazine called Gölge (Shadow).
- Mirzabeyoglu was influenced by the Islamist poet Necip Fazil Kisakürek who published a magazine called Büyük Dogu (Great East).He is the ideologue and alleged leader of the Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front (IBDA-C), a militant Islamist group present in Turkey.
- He was arrested on 29 December 1998 for allegedly trying to overthrow the constitutional order by force.
- Subsequently, following the IBDA-C concept of 'leaderless resistance', further attacks on banks, synagogues, churches places serving alcohol and TV stations were claimed by groups who said they were part of IBDA-C.
- The bombings in Istanbul claimed 65 lives including that of the British consul general Roger Short.
- Mirzabeyoglu was sentenced to life imprisonment.On July 23, 2014 he was released from prison, and on November 29, 2014 consulted with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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