[2] He was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 1991, representing Şanlıurfa for the True Path Party.
In this meeting, he declared that the state had done everything to destroy the fraternity between the Turkish and Kurdish nations.
[3] The other three crash victims were drug smuggler Abdullah Çatlı and his girlfriend Gonça Us, and the director of the Police Academy in Istanbul Hüseyin Kocadağ.
Bucak's parliamentary immunity was revoked, but it was reinstated when he was re-elected in 1999, putting the Susurluk-related trial on hold.
[6] Bucak failed to win a seat in the 2002 general election, and as a result he lost his parliamentary immunity, and a case against him in relation to the Susurluk gang proceeded in December 2002.