Dündar Taşer

Dündar Taşer
Born	Dündar Taşer 1925 Gaziantep
Died	June 13, 1972(1972-06-13)
Cause of death	Car accident
Nationality	Turkish
Ethnicity	Turkish
Occupation	Soldier
Employer	Turkish Army
Known for	Nationalist activist
Political party	Nationalist Movement Party

Dündar Taşer (1925 – June 13, 1972) was a Turkish soldier and politician who was a leading figure in Turkish nationalism.

He was born in Gaziantep to a traditionalist family and underwent training to become an officer in the Turkish Army, eventually reaching the rank of Major. A supporter of the conservative elements in the army, he took part in the coup d'état of Cemal Gürsel on 27 May 1960, although he was sent to Switzerland to serve as a military attache in the Turkish embassy in Zürich.^[1]

Forced to retire from the army, he entered politics along with his close associate Alparslan Türkeş by joining Cumhuriyetçi Köylü Millet Partisi (which was later renamed the Nationalist Movement Party). A strong advocate of Pan-Turkism, he established a camp to train North Cypriot guerillas in 1968.^[2]

He died in a road accident in 1972.^[1] Following his death his friend, the historian Ziya Nur Aksun, collected many of his words and published them.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} 'Dundar Taser'
2. ^ 'Ultranationalist terror camps in Turkey'
3. ^ 'AKSUN, Ziya Nur'

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Name	Taser, Dundar
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Date of birth	1925
Place of birth	Gaziantep
Date of death	June 13, 1972
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