Dündar Taşer was a Turkish

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 soldier and politician who was a leading figure in Turkish nationalism

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He was born in Gaziantep

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 to a traditionalist family and underwent training to become an officer in the Turkish Army

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, eventually reaching the rank of Major. A supporter of the conservative elements in the army, he took part in the coup d'état

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 of Cemal Gürsel

Cemal Gürsel

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 on 27 May 1960, although he was sent to Switzerland

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 to serve as a military attache in the Turkish embassy in Zürich

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Forced to retire from the army, he entered politics along with his close associate Alparslan Türkeş

Alparslan Türkes

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 by joining Cumhuriyetçi Köylü Millet Partisi (which was later renamed the Nationalist Movement Party

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). A strong advocate of Pan-Turkism

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, he established a camp to train North Cypriot

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guerillas in 1968.

He died in a road accident in 1972. Following his death his friend, the historian Ziya Nur Aksun, collected many of his words and published them.