Remzi Çayır is a Turkish far-right politician and the founder and leader of the National Path Party.
He was born on 1 January 1959, in the Abbaslar village of Kahramanmaraş Province. Before the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, he was arrested in 1979 and imprisoned for his Idealist activities while he was a student at Ankara University Faculty of Science. He received a degree in economics while in prison. He was released from prison in 1991. [1]
He was a friend of Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu and took part in assisting Yazıcıoğlu in the establishment process of the Great Unity Party. He participated in the court case of the murder of Yazıcıoğlu. [2] During the assassination of Sinan Ateş, he said that the killers of Ateş were the same ones who killed Yazıcıoğlu. [3]
He became a candidate for the mayor of Ankara as a member of the BBP in the 2014 local elections. [4] He left the BBP in 2018 after serving in the party's leadership for 25 years. [5] Shortly after leaving the BBP, he survived an assassination attempt. [6] He founded the National Path Party in 2021. [7] He is a critic of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. [8] [7]
Remzi Çayır is a Turkish far-right politician and the founder and leader of the National Path Party.
He was born on 1 January 1959, in the Abbaslar village of Kahramanmaraş Province. Before the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, he was arrested in 1979 and imprisoned for his Idealist activities while he was a student at Ankara University Faculty of Science. He received a degree in economics while in prison. He was released from prison in 1991. [1]
He was a friend of Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu and took part in assisting Yazıcıoğlu in the establishment process of the Great Unity Party. He participated in the court case of the murder of Yazıcıoğlu. [2] During the assassination of Sinan Ateş, he said that the killers of Ateş were the same ones who killed Yazıcıoğlu. [3]
He became a candidate for the mayor of Ankara as a member of the BBP in the 2014 local elections. [4] He left the BBP in 2018 after serving in the party's leadership for 25 years. [5] Shortly after leaving the BBP, he survived an assassination attempt. [6] He founded the National Path Party in 2021. [7] He is a critic of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. [8] [7]