Feridun Yazar

Feridun Yazar (1944 – 12 June 2016) was the president of the political party HEP from 1991 to 1992. Yazar was born in Şanlıurfa and worked as an attorney. He was also involved in politics and was charged with being a member of the Revolutionary Cultural Eastern Hearths (DDKO). He was mayor of Şanlıurfa for the CHP in the years between 1977–80. He was dismissed as mayor after the military coup 1980 and arrested for two years. On 1 November 2015 he was a candidate for MP for Şanlıurfa the HDP, but he was not elected. He died on 12 June 2016.