Hüseyin Velioğlu (born Hüseyin Durmaz; 1952 – 17 January 2000) was the leader of the Kurdish Hezbollah, a militant extremist organization in the early 1990s. Velioğlu led one of the wings of this organization. He was killed in a police operation in the Beykoz district of Istanbul on 17 January 2000.

Life

Velioğlu was born Hüseyin Durmaz in Batman Province in 1952. He was Kurdish.[1] He legally changed his surname to Velioğlu in 1978. He studied at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Ankara. In 1980, he moved to the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakır, and in 1987, founded Kurdish Hezbollah. When it came to disagreements within the organization, Velioğlu belonged to the leader of the so-called Ilim-wing, which was the armed wing of the organization. Velioğlu was killed in a villa during a gun battle between the people of the villa and the Turkish police.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Turkey and the War on Terror. For Thirty Years We Fought Alone. Publisher: Routledge, p. 61
  2. ↑ Aydıntaşbaş, Aslı (June 2000). "Murder on the Bosphorus". Middle East Quarterly. VII (2): 15–22. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
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