Kürşat Mican (born 1 March 1982) is a Turkish politician and author. He has been a member of the
Great Unity Party
The Great Unity Party (, BBP) is a far-right Sunni Islamist and ultranationalist political party in Turkey. It was created on 29 January 1993 by Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, who broke off from the Nationalist Task Party (predecessor of the modern ...
Giresun
Giresun () is a city in the Black Sea Region of northeastern Turkey, about west of the city of Trabzon. It is the seat of Giresun Province and Giresun District. He moved to
Istanbul
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with his family at a young age. Mican studied in Istanbul and became the manager at Mican Group, the family's company. Since 2000 he is a member of the
Great Unity Party
The Great Unity Party (, BBP) is a far-right Sunni Islamist and ultranationalist political party in Turkey. It was created on 29 January 1993 by Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, who broke off from the Nationalist Task Party (predecessor of the modern ...
. In 2018 he established the Yesevi Alperenler Association (''Yesevi Alperenler Derneğini kurdu''), an educational institution. He participated as a helper in many war zones, especially Syria and Iraq, where he helped for 8 years.
Mican is the founding president of Alpkurt (Alperen Arama Kurtarma). He is Istanbul's Provincial President of Alperen Hearths.
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
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Pride Week.
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
Sultanbeyli () is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 29 km2, and its population is 358,201 (2022). It is located inland on the Asian side ( Anadolu Yakasi) of the city. The mayor is Ali Tombaş of the Jus ...
. About ten bullets hit the car but Mican and his brother escaped unharmed. In 2023 he protested the burning of the Quran in Sweden, calling for a boycott of "all products of other European states, especially Sweden".
In 2020 he published the book ''Şehit Lider Muhsin Başkan ve Davası'', which is about the late BBP leader
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 Unity Party (BBP), a far-right, nationalist-Islamist political party.
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Major works
* ''Şehit Lider Muhsin Başkan ve Davası'', 368 pp., Bilgeoğuz