Kürşat Mican | |
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Occupation(s) | Politician, author |
Years active | 2000–present |
Kürşat Mican (born 1 March 1982) is a Turkish politician and author. He has been a member of the Great Unity Party since 2000.
Mican was born on 1 March 1982 in Eynesil, Giresun, Turkey. [1] He moved to Istanbul with his family at a young age. [1] Mican studied in Istanbul and became the manager at Mican Group, the family's company. [1] Since 2000 he is a member of the Great Unity Party. [1] In 2018 he established the Yesevi Alperenler Association (Yesevi Alperenler Derneğini kurdu), an educational institution. [1] He participated as a helper in many war zones, especially Syria and Iraq, where he helped for 8 years. [1]
Mican is the founding president of Alpkurt (Alperen Arama Kurtarma). [1] He is Istanbul's Provincial President of Alperen Hearths. [2] [3]
In 2017 he was tried with a prison sentence of up to 6 years for "inciting people to hatred and hostility or humiliating" and fined 4 thousand liras for threats he pronounced against the participants of the LGBT Pride Week. [2]
In the night of 8 March 2018, the car on which he and his brother were riding was subject to a gun attack in Sultanbeyli. About ten bullets hit the car but Mican and his brother escaped unharmed. [4] In 2023 he protested the burning of the Quran in Sweden, calling for a boycott of "all products of other European states, especially Sweden". [5] [6]
In 2020 he published the book Şehit Lider Muhsin Başkan ve Davası, which is about the late BBP leader Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu. [7]
Kürşat Mican | |
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Born | |
Occupation(s) | Politician, author |
Years active | 2000–present |
Kürşat Mican (born 1 March 1982) is a Turkish politician and author. He has been a member of the Great Unity Party since 2000.
Mican was born on 1 March 1982 in Eynesil, Giresun, Turkey. [1] He moved to Istanbul with his family at a young age. [1] Mican studied in Istanbul and became the manager at Mican Group, the family's company. [1] Since 2000 he is a member of the Great Unity Party. [1] In 2018 he established the Yesevi Alperenler Association (Yesevi Alperenler Derneğini kurdu), an educational institution. [1] He participated as a helper in many war zones, especially Syria and Iraq, where he helped for 8 years. [1]
Mican is the founding president of Alpkurt (Alperen Arama Kurtarma). [1] He is Istanbul's Provincial President of Alperen Hearths. [2] [3]
In 2017 he was tried with a prison sentence of up to 6 years for "inciting people to hatred and hostility or humiliating" and fined 4 thousand liras for threats he pronounced against the participants of the LGBT Pride Week. [2]
In the night of 8 March 2018, the car on which he and his brother were riding was subject to a gun attack in Sultanbeyli. About ten bullets hit the car but Mican and his brother escaped unharmed. [4] In 2023 he protested the burning of the Quran in Sweden, calling for a boycott of "all products of other European states, especially Sweden". [5] [6]
In 2020 he published the book Şehit Lider Muhsin Başkan ve Davası, which is about the late BBP leader Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu. [7]