Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu

Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu (b. 1966; Batman), is a Kurdish politician and lawyer in Turkey who led the Kurdish Islamist Free Cause Party party from June 2013 to May 2018.[1]

Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu
2. Free Cause Party leader
In office
30 June 2013 – 21 May 2018
Preceded byMehmet Hüseyin Yılmaz
Succeeded byMehmet Yavuz
Personal details
Born1966 (age 53–54)
Batman, Turkey
Political partyFree Cause Party
EducationLawyer, politician
Alma materAnkara University, Law School

Background and political views and career

Born in 1966 in the city of Batman in the eastern part of Turkey, he worked as a lawyer from 1990 to 2012 after finishing his education as a lawyer in Ankara. He co-founded the Free Cause Party in 2013 in an attempt to consolidate the conservative Kurdish vote.[2] Yapıcıoğlu had previously been a supporter of Kurdish Hezbollah and also stated that the cause of Hüda-Par was the continuation of that of Sheikh Said.[3]

Yapıcıoğlu is Anti-Darwinian and generally uses Islamic rhetoric in his speeches.[4][5] Moreover, he is against the Kurdistan Workers' Party, anti-America[6] and also criticized the ruling Justice and Development Party's policies and their failure in bringing peace to Kurdish areas.[7]

Electoral history

Yapıcıoğlu ran unsuccessfully as an independent twice in 2015 and in 2018 in the district of Diyarbakır and received 3.4% and 4.3% of the vote share respectively.

ElectionDistrictVotes[8]%Results
General elections, June 2015Diyarbakır27,5373.4%Not elected
General elections, 2018Diyarbakır35,2394.3%Not elected

References
  1. "Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu İstifa Etti" (in Turkish). Milliyet. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  2. "Hür Dava Partisi (Hüda par) nedir?". Hürriyet Daily News (in Turkish). Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  3. Mehmet Kurt (2017). Kurdish Hizbullah in turkey – Islamism, violence and the State. London: PlutoPress. p. 49.
  4. Mehmet Kurt (2017). Kurdish Hizbullah in turkey – Islamism, violence and the State. London: PlutoPress. p. 108.
  5. "Our goal is to establish justice: Yapıcıoğlu" (in Turkish). İlke Haber Ajansı. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  6. "Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu Rojava ve 'O sözlere' ilişkin konuştu" (in Turkish). 27 October 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  7. "HÜDA PAR lideri Yapıcıoğlu: Ak Parti sistemi muhafaza ediyor". Independent Türkçe (in Turkish). 19 October 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  8. "Sandık Sonuçları ve Tutanaklar". sonuc.ysk.gov.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 23 March 2020.
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