The Great Unity Party ( tr, Büyük Birlik Partisi, BBP) or Great Union Party is a far-right Sunni Islamist and

ultranationalist Ultranationalism or extreme nationalism is an extreme form of nationalism in which a country asserts or maintains detrimental hegemony, supremacy, or other forms of control over other nations (usually through violent coercion) to pursue its sp ...

political party in Turkey, created on 29 January 1993.Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu's biography
It is considered to be close to the

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organization, Turkey/Istanbul – Istanbul Police Chief claims there was no political motivation behind Hrant Dink’s murder!
''Sendika'' and is related to the " Alperen Ocakları" tendency, which operated a synthesis between

cultural nationalism Cultural nationalism is nationalism in which the nation is defined by a shared culture and a common language, rather than on the concepts of common ancestry or race. Cultural nationalism does not tend to manifest itself in independent movements, ...

and Islamism, and separated itself from the ''Nationalist Task Party'' (MÇP), which was renamed to

Nationalist Movement Party The Nationalist Movement Party (alternatively translated as Nationalist Action Party; tr, Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP) is a Turkish far-right and ultranationalist political party. The group is often described as neo-fascist, and has bee ...

(MHP) in July 1992. Although it is claimed that the founder of the party

Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu (December 31, 1954 – March 25, 2009) was a Turkish politician and member of the Parliament of Turkey. He was the leader and founder of the Great Union Party (BBP), a right-wing, nationalist-Islamist political party. ...

left the

(Turkish: Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP) for lack of religious convictions, this should be seen rather as a speculation as Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu rarely blamed the MHP or talked about the separation. The rift between Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu and Alparslan Türkeş actually started after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. Alparslan Türkeş defended himself in the infamous speech in which he declared "My opinions and beliefs are of the same as the generals who organized the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, yet I am in prison" speech during trials after the coup. The ideological separation started then and reached the surface after Alparslan Türkeş dismissed the Ankara headquarters of the MHP after the 1992 MHP Congress. The delegates had elected the candidate supported by

rather than the candidate of Alparslan Türkeş environment. Türkeş's dismissal, seen to show an anti-democratic approach, was the final blow to the relationship between the young circle who had suffered during the 1980 coup, and the old guard which circled around Alparslan Türkeş. The party has been represented in the

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only via electoral coalitions with popular parties. At the 2002

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, the party won 1.1% of the popular vote and no seats; in the

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Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu was elected as an independent. In 2009 local elections the BBP's candidate was elected as the new mayor of

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2009 helicopter crash and death of Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu

On 25 March 2009, the leader of the BBP,

, died in a helicopter crash in south-eastern Turkey. A large search and rescue operation was conducted in the mountainous area around

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. The helicopter wreckage was found 47 hours after the crash, and all six people on board were found dead. İsmail Güneş, a reporter of the Ihlas News Agency, who was accompanying Yazıcıoğlu, initially survived the crash and placed a desperate call for help just after the crash, and reported a broken leg. By the time the search party located the crash site in the inclement weather, all six aboard, including Güneş, were dead. Yazıcıoğlu had been traveling from

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in central

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for another political rally before local elections on 29 March when the chartered helicopter crashed.

2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla

A delegation representing the BBP participated in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on board the ship

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in May 2010.

2016 gay pride march in Istanbul

In 2016, the Alperen threatened to stop the annual gay pride march in Istanbul. Alperen's Istanbul chief, Kursat Mican, stated:

Degenerates will not be allowed to carry out their fantasies on this land...We're not responsible for what will happen after this point ... We do not want people to walk around half-naked with alcohol bottles in their hands in this
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city watered by the blood of our ancestors.

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2009 helicopter crash and death of Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu

2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla

2016 gay pride march in Istanbul

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