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He received a bachelor"s degree in law, at University of Istanbul.
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Fehmi Bulent Yıldırım
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He is a lawyer by profession. He participated in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as the leader of İHH. He was on board the Move Files Mavi Marmara ship which was stormed by Israeli troops. In the Gaza flotilla raid, 9 activists were killed by the Israel Defense Forces gunfire.
Israel accuses him of giving orders to İHH members to throw Israelli soldiers to sea.
He was captured by the Israel Defense Forces, but later deported to Turkey. He is banned from returning to Israel for ten years.
When he returned home, he said: "Then they asked us, ‘Didn’t you attack us with iron bars and axes?’ I told them what I did was only self-defense. This was defense against helicopters and assault boats, against well-trained commandos.
They lie when they say they were given permission to use real bullets after the 35th minute.
They threw in gas bombs, which injured our friends. Only two of the initially fired bullets were rubber. The others were nail-like bullets.
Our friend Cevdet was martyred.
He was only taking pictures as the Israelis fired on us. They smashed his brain into pieces from exactly one meter away.
We never acted outside the law. Warships were following us.
They were supposed to help us, but they didn’t.
They killed our friends who had surrendered and threw their bodies into the water. An Indonesian doctor was shot in the stomach as he helped a wounded Israeli soldier. We are against all cruelty.” lieutenant has been reported by the Turkish newspaper, Habertürk, that Bülent Yıldırım is being investigated by both an Istanbul and Diyarbakır specially authorized prosecutor for allegedly financing al-Qaeda through his organization.
Yildirim led funeral prayers at a memorial service for Chechen leader Shamil Basayev in 2006.
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He is a member of the press
