Yahya Mohamed Abdullah Saleh is the nephew of former

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

i president

Ali Abdullah Saleh Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (, ''ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar;'' 21 March 1947There is a dispute as to Saleh's date of birth, some saying that it was on 21 March 1942. See: However, by Saleh's own confession, he was born in 1947 al ...

, and was a chair staff of the approx. 50,000 strong

Central Security Organization The Special Security Forces ( ar, قوات الأمن الخاصة, Quwwatul Amn al-Khasah), formerly known until 2013 as the Central Security Organization ( ar, قوات الأمن المركزي, Quwwatul Amn al-Markazi), is a paramilitary forc ...

from 2001 to 21 May 2012. His father is Major General

Mohammed Abdullah Saleh Major General Mohammed Abdullah Saleh Afash ( ar, محمد عبد الله صالح ال عفاش; 1939 in Sanaa – 14 May 2001 in London) was the first Chief of Staff of the Yemeni Central Security Forces and one of its leaders and the brother ...

. Saleh was replaced with Major General

Fadhel Bin Yahiya al-Qusi Fazel in Persian, or Fadhel ( ar, فاضل) is an Arabic and Persian male given and also surname meaning "virtuous". It may refer to: *Michael Fadel (1710-1795), Maronite Patriarch of Antioch *Fazel Darbandi (died 1869/1870), Iranian Shia cleric ...

. Following his dismissal Yahya sent a letter to President

Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi ( ar, عبدربه منصور هادي, translit=ʿAbd Rabbih Manṣūr Hādī Yemeni pronunciation: ; born 1 September 1945) is a Yemeni politician and former field marshal of the Yemeni Armed Forces who served as the pres ...

, expressing his support for Hadi.

References

Living people Yemeni politicians People of the Yemeni Revolution 1965 births Saleh family People from Sanaa {{yemen-bio-stub