Yaşar Kaya (born 1938, Kars, Turkey[1]–2016, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan) was a Turkish-Kurdish politician and publisher of the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem.

[7] The party decided to launch a peace campaign focused on the Turkish Kurdish conflict which would take place from the 2 August to the 1 September 1993.

[8] And on the 17 September 1993 Kaya was arrested due to his participation at public event in Germany as well at the congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in 1993.

[11] In February 1994, Kaya was sentenced to 4 years in prison due to a speech he held at the KDP congress on the 15 August 1993 in Iraq.

[16] In July 1999, the Turkish authorities issued an arrest warrant for Yasar Kaya, and accused him together with other integrants of the Kurdish Parliament in Exile of having established an armed movement.