Remzi Çayır is a Turkish

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politician and the founder and leader of the

National Path Party The National Path Party ( Turkish: Milli Yol Partisi; MİLLİ YOL) is a Turkish nationalist and national conservative political party in Turkey. A group within the Great Unity Party, dissatisfied with the party’s leadership and its support for ...

Personal life

He was born on 1 January 1959, in the Abbaslar village of

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. Before the

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, he was arrested in 1979 and imprisoned for his

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activities while he was a student at

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Faculty of Science. He received a degree in economics while in prison. He was released from prison in 1991. He was a friend of

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. ...

and took part in assisting Yazıcıoğlu in the establishment process of the

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. He participated in the court case of the murder of Yazıcıoğlu. During the assassination of

Sinan Ateş Sinan Ateş (14 August 1984 – 30 December 2022) was a Turkish historian, academic and politician. He worked as a lecturer at Hacettepe University and served as the general chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)'s Grey Wolves from 2019 ...

, he said that the killers of Ateş were the same ones who killed Yazıcıoğlu. He became a candidate for the mayor of

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as a member of the BBP in the 2014 local elections. He left the BBP in 2018 after serving in the party's leadership for 25 years. Shortly after leaving the BBP, he survived an assassination attempt. He founded the

in 2021. He is a critic of

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister of Turkey, prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Jus ...

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