History
The organization of Turkish/Kurdish Hezbollah started in 1979/1980 with meetings in the bookshop Vahdet in Diyarbakır. The shop was owned by Abdulvahap Ekinci. The meetings were attended by Fidan Güngör and Hüseyin Velioğlu. In 1981 Fidan Gündör founded the bookshop Menzil and Hüseyin Velioğlu founded the bookshop İlim in 1982. Until 1987 the groups gathered around these bookshops worked together.
Further groups within Kurdish Hezbollah were named as Tevhid, led by Nurettin Şirin and Mehmet Şahin and Yeryüzü, led by Burhan Kavuncu.
Read more about this topic: Hizbollah (Turkey)
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