Salih Mirzabeyoğlu Explained

Salih Mirzabeyoğlu
Birth Name:Salih İzzet Erdiş
Birth Date:10 May 1950
Birth Place:Erzincan Province, Turkey
Death Place:Yalova Province, Turkey
Nationality:Turkish
Occupation:Author
Known For:Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front (İBDA-C)

Salih Mirzabeyoğlu (real name Salih İzzet Erdiş; 10 May 1950, in Erzincan – 16 May 2018, in Yalova)[1] was a Kurdish-Turkish Islamic fundamentalist[2] with Bitlis Province[3] [4] [5] [6] origin. His family were close to both the Naqshbandi and Nurcu Islamic brotherhoods, and were involved with the Kurdish Sheikh Said rebellion in 1925 against the newly founded Turkish Republic.[7] Most of his supporters were Kurds.[8]

In 1975, he and his friends published a political magazine called Gölge (Shadow). Mirzabeyoğlu was influenced by the Islamist poet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek who published a magazine called Büyük Doğu.[7]

He is the ideologue and alleged leader of the Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front (İBDA-C), a militant Islamist group present in Turkey.[9] He was arrested on 29 December 1998 for allegedly trying to overthrow the constitutional order by force. Subsequently, following the İBDA-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 İBDA-C. The bombings in Istanbul claimed 65 lives including that of the British consul general Roger Short.[7] Mirzabeyoğlu was sentenced to life imprisonment.[10]

On 23 July 2014, he was released from prison, and on 29 November 2014 consulted with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[11]

Bibliography

He has written 50 books.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Salih Mirzabeyoğlu vefat etti. Mynet Haber. 16 May 2018 .
  2. German Jihad: On the Internationalisation of Islamist Terrorism, Guido Steinberg. 2013. p. 114. "As in the Hizbullah, most, if not all, IBDA-C members are ethnic Kurds like the organizations founding leader....
  3. News: Biyografi: Salih Mirzabeyoğlu biyografisi. 15 April 2016. www.biyografi.net.
  4. Book: Alakom, Rohat. Orta Anadolu Kürtleri. Evrensel Basım Yayın. 2004. 9789756525777. tr.
  5. Book: Musa, Şaşmaz. Mutki Aşiretinden Kürt Musa Bey Olayı. Kitabevi.
  6. Book: Prof.Dr.Nur, Serter. Dinde Siyasal İslam Tekeli.
  7. Book: Mango, Andrew. Turkey and the War on Terror: For Forty Years We Fought Alone. 2005. Taylor & Francis. 9780415350020.
  8. German Jihad: On the Internationalisation of Islamist Terrorism, Guido Steinberg. 2013. p. 114. "As in the Hizbullah, most, if not all, IBDA-C members are ethnic Kurds like the organizations founding leader....
  9. Encyclopedia of terrorism, Ed. Harvey W. Kushner, (SAGE Publications, 2003), 151.
  10. News: Salih Mirzabeyoğlu takma isimli Salih İzzet Erdiş İBDA/C liderine ölüm cezası. 4 November 2008. tr. NTV-MSNBC. Anadolu Agency.
  11. Web site: National Islamist leader meets Erdoğan . 2014-12-02 . 2016-03-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305132626/http://www.todayszaman.com/national_islamist-leader-meets-erdogan-ahead-of-first-appearance-since-release_365873.html . dead .

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