Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım (born 1966 in Erzurum, Turkey) is a Turkish lawyer and the current president of Turkish NGO, İHH (İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri, İnsani Yardım Vakfı)[1] which provided humanitarian relief in Libya,[2] Pakistan,[3] Russia, China, Kashmir, Darfur, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Somalia, Mauritania, Chile, the Philippines, Aceh, Myanmar, Greece, Crimea, and Haiti.
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.
An Indonesian doctor was shot in the stomach as he helped a wounded Israeli soldier ... Had it been Muslims killing Jews, I would again go with a flotilla.
We are against all cruelty.” [5] In 2012 the Turkish newspaper Habertürk reported that Bülent Yıldırım was being investigated by specially authorized prosecutors in Istanbul and Diyarbakır for allegedly financing al-Qaeda through his organization.
[6] Yildirim led funeral prayers at a memorial service for Chechen leader Shamil Basayev in 2006.