Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu was a Turkish

Turkey

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 politician and member of the Parliament of Turkey. He was the leader and founder of the Great Union Party

Great Union Party

The Great Union Party is a nationalist political party in Turkey, created on January 29, 1993. It is considered to be close to the Grey Wolves organization, and is related to the "Alperen Ocakları" tendency, which operated a synthesis between Islamism and Turkish Nationalism, and separated itself...

 (BBP), a right-wing, nationalist political party

Political party

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Yazıcıoğlu was born 1954 in a small village named Elmali in Şarkışla

Sarkisla

Şarkışla is a town in the Central Anatolian Sivas Province of Turkey. The mayor is Kasım Gültekin .Aşık Veysel, one of the most famous Turkish folk poets and folk music singers of the 20th century were born in Şarkışla, as well as another earlier poet named Aşık Sefil Kanberi...

 of Sivas Province

Sivas Province

The Sivas Province is a province of Turkey. It located at the eastern part of the Central Anatolian region of Turkey; it is the second largest province in Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Yozgat to the west, Kayseri to the southwest, Kahramanmaraş to the south, Malatya to the southeast, Erzincan...

. He studied in Şarkışla from primary school to high school after that he was educated at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Ankara University

Ankara University

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Yazıcıoğlu died on March 25, 2009 in a helicopter crash

2009 Medair TC-HEK helicopter crash

The 2009 Medair TC-HEK helicopter crash occurred on March 25, 2009 at around 16:00 EET when a Bell 206L-4 LongRanger, tail number TC-HEK, operated by Medair while on a charter flight en route from Çağlayancerit in Kahramanmaraş Province to Yerköy in Yozgat Province struck Mount Keş in central Turkey...

 in the south-eastern Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş

Kahramanmaras

-Industry:Kahramanmaraş's industry is mainly based on textile and ice cream. Kahramanmaraş is one of the biggest textile industry cities of Turkey. Companies like Kipaş, İskur, Arsan and Bozkurt are one of the richest companies in the city...

, after a political rally there on the way to the next rally in Yozgat

Yozgat

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 just four days before the local elections. Ironically he had written a poetry with the meaning of feeling cold in English during his stay in prison. He also was member of Grey Wolves

Grey Wolves

The Idealist Youth , commonly known as Grey Wolves , is an ultra-nationalist neo-fascist youth organization. It is accused of terrorism. According to Turkish authorities, the organization carried out 694 murders between 1974–1980.-Name:...

in the 1970s.