Yaşar Kaya

Yaşar Kaya
Chairman of the Peoples' Labour Party
In office
June 1993  December 1993
President of the Kurdish Parliament in Exile
In office
1995–1999
Personal details
Born1938
Kars, Turkey
Died9 March 2016
Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan
CitizenshipTurkish
NationalityKurdish
Political partyPeoples Labour Party

Yaşar Kaya (born 1938, Kars, Turkey–2016, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan) was a Turkish-Kurdish politician and publisher of the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem. Together with authors like Ismail Besikçi and Musa Anter, he was a co-founders of the Kurdish Institute of Istanbul in 1992.