{"id":2363,"date":"2020-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:02:28","slug":"haydar-bas-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2363","title":{"rendered":"Haydar Ba\u015f, politician"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Haydar Ba\u015f a Turkish politician and businessman died due to complications from COVID-19 on 14 April 2020.\r\n\r\nHe was one of the founders of the Independent Turkey Party and served as the party’s leader until his death. He was also the leader of the subordinate branch of the Qadiriyya tariqa in Turkey. He was also the owner of various media organizations such as Meltem TV, Mesaj TV and \u00d6\u011f\u00fct, Mesaj, \u0130cmal magazines together with Yeni Mesaj newspaper.\r\n\r\nHe died on 14 April 2020 at a hospital in Trabzon due to complications from COVID-19.\r\n\r\nBa\u015f completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Trabzon. He graduated from Kayseri Supreme Islamic Institute in 1970. Later he received his postgraduate education, doctorate and the title of “professor” from Baku State University. He later worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Eastern Languages and Literature Research at Baku State University.\r\n\r\nBa\u015f began his tenure in politics in 1970 by joining the National Salvation Party, but his time in the party was short-lived. Therein the leader of the National Salvation Party, Necmettin Erbakan, drove Ba\u015f away from the party as the two had contradictory views. In the following years, he stayed away from the parties led by Erbakan.\r\n\r\nHis interest in politics always continued and he supported the True Path Party in the 1994 elections.\r\n\r\nOn 25 September 2001, Ba\u015f founded the Independent Turkey Party which he continued to lead until his death.\r\n\r\nHe became a recognized name in politics in the 2007 elections, thanks to his party’s slogan. At a rally held in Ankara’s Tando\u011fan square, the sentence “We want jobs, we want food, we want Haydar Ba\u015f in Ankara in this election (Turkish: \u0130\u015f istiyoruz, a\u015f istiyoruz, bu se\u00e7imlerde Ankara’ya Haydar Ba\u015f’\u0131 istiyoruz)”, which was written on a farmer’s banner, inspired them to use the slogan “Work, food, this time Haydar Ba\u015f (\u0130\u015f, a\u015f, bu defa Haydar Ba\u015f)” which made the party known among the people. In the 2011 general elections, he was an MP nominee from the Democratic Party.\r\n\r\nIn the 2015 elections, he promised to “come upon \u20ba500 trillion with the national economy model and provide a [monthly] salary of \u20ba500 for everyone”. In the 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum his party voted “no”, and they did not participate in the June 2018 election.\r\n\r\nIn 2018, upon the complaint of doctor Mustafa Eraslan and his wife Meral Eraslan, a lawsuit was filed against him on the charges of “forcibly passing over someone else’s property, attempting to plunder, and forgery in official documents” and his assets were also confiscated. In its decision of 16 October 2019, the Bak\u0131rk\u00f6y 15th High Criminal Court sentenced Ba\u015f to two years and six months of imprisonment for forging documents, but he was acquitted of other charges.\r\n\r\nAhmet Mahmut \u00dcnl\u00fc, also known as C\u00fcbbeli Ahmet, criticized Ba\u015f for relying on Shiite hadiths but not the Sunni ones in his religious analyses. \u00dcnl\u00fc mentioned Ba\u015f’s claim that Umar attacked Muhammad’s daughter Fatimah at her house and caused her miscarriage was a Shiite view and had no place in Sunni traditions.\r\n\r\nIn his hometown Trabzon, eight of his family members tested positive for COVID-19 during the coronavirus pandemic. On 9 April, he started receiving treatment in a private hospital in the Ak\u00e7aabat district. After receiving treatment for four days in the private hospital, he was taken to the intensive care unit as he needed respiratory support. He was transferred to the Kanuni Education and Research Hospital on 13 April. Ba\u015f died due to complications from COVID-19 on 14 April 2020. He was 73.\r\n\r\nThe funeral prayer for Ba\u015f was performed on the Trabzon Coast Road Side Yeni Mahalle Fair Area in Yenimahalle, in the Ortahisar district of Trabzon on 15 April. His son Osman Ba\u015f performed the funeral prayer. He was buried in the Martyrdom Hill in Ak\u00e7aabat district. Trabzon Governor \u0130smail Ustao\u011flu, Trabzon Police Chief Metin Alper, Trabzon Metropolitan Mayor Murat Zorluo\u011flu, Ak\u00e7abat Mayor Osman Nuri Ekim and Ortahisar Mayor Ahmet Metin Gen\u00e7 attended the funeral prayer.\r\n<\/p>

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Haydar Ba\u015f a Turkish politician and businessman died due to complications from COVID-19 on 14 April 2020. He was one of the founders of the Independent Turkey Party and served as the party’s leader until his death. He was also the leader of the subordinate branch of the Qadiriyya tariqa in Turkey. 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