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Ahmet Kaya

Born

in Malatya, Turkey

October 28, 1957

Died

November 16, 2000

Website

http://www.ahmetkaya.com

Genre

Poetry

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Ahmet Kaya, Kurdish singer from Diyarbakir, Turkey, who died on November 16, 2000 in exile in Paris.
He sang in Turkish. Some of his most popular songs include Ayrılık Vakti, Söyle, Ağladıkça, Oy Benim Canım, Birazdan Kudurur Deniz, Arka Mahalle, Nereden Bileceksiniz, Hani Benim Gençliğim, Yakarım Geceleri and Şafak Türküsü.

Ahmet Kaya was the fifth and last child of his father Zaza who was Kurdish, who had immigrated from Adıyaman to Malatya, and Turkish mother. He first encountered music at the age of six when his father bought him a bağlama for his birthday. Ahmet Kaya worked for a while as a taxi driver in Istanbul before becoming well known as a singer in the mid-1980s.

His first album, Ağlama Bebeğim, was released in 1985. His popularit Ahmet Kaya, Kurdish singer from Diyarbakir, Turkey, who died on November 16, 2000 in exile in Paris.
He sang in Turkish. Some of his most popular songs include Ayrılık Vakti, Söyle, Ağladıkça, Oy Benim Canım, Birazdan Kudurur Deniz, Arka Mahalle, Nereden Bileceksiniz, Hani Benim Gençliğim, Yakarım Geceleri and Şafak Türküsü.

Ahmet Kaya was the fifth and last child of his father Zaza who was Kurdish, who had immigrated from Adıyaman to Malatya, and Turkish mother. He first encountered music at the age of six when his father bought him a bağlama for his birthday. Ahmet Kaya worked for a while as a taxi driver in Istanbul before becoming well known as a singer in the mid-1980s.

His first album, Ağlama Bebeğim, was released in 1985. His popularity continued to rise into the 1990s when in 1994 he released the album Şarkılarım Dağlara which was sold a record 2.8 million copies. All of his 1990 albums to chart-toppers.

During his career he recorded approximately 20 albums and was known for his protest music and positions on social justice. Recurring themes in his songs are love towards one's mother, sacrifice, and hope.

On 10 February 1999 televised annual music awards ceremony, SHOW TV, at which he was to be named Musician of the Year, he spoke out about his Kurdish background and said that he wanted to produce music in his native Kurdish as naturally as he does in Turkish. He announced that he had recorded a song in Kurdish (Karwan, released on the Hoşçakalın Gözüm album in 2001) and intended to produce a video to accompany it. Because of making the announcement he was treated like a monster by some famous singers, actors, producers, journalists after his talk. This was led by Serdar Ortac who years later apologized for his behavior and the crowd also started singing the Turkish national anthem. This was an incident which led to a prosecution case which made him leave Turkey.

Kaya went to France in June 1999 escaping various charges arising from his political views. Among them were the accusations that he had performed in front of a poster for the Kurdistan Workers Party at a 1993 concert in Germany, and that he had made statements in support of Abdullah Öcalan. In March 2000 he was sentenced in absentia to three years and nine months in prison on the charge of spreading separatist propaganda. Later, however, the visual media central to allegations demonstrating Kaya in front of the poster was proven to be forged. He died of a heart attack in Paris in 2000, at the age of 43, and is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.

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	دیوارها سخن نمی‌گویند by Ahmet Kaya (Poet), یغما گلرویی (Translator), آیدین آقاخانی (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	جاودانه‌های احمد کایا، گزینه‌ی اوّل 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	جاودانه‌های احمد کایا، گزینه‌ی دوّم 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yağmurlu Ülkenin Sürgün Konuğu by Ahmet Kaya, Gülten Kaya, Emrah Aydoğdu really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	An Analytical Approach Towards Securitization Process: The impact of the EU securitization process on the border security framework of Turkey 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“من اگر كُرد هم نبودم، بخاطر اين نابرابری و ظلم بزرگ به صدا در می آمدم؛ بچه های كُرد با كاغذهای سفيد روزها سر جاده ها می آمدند و كاغذهای سفيد خود را با خونشان قرمز مي كردند و تنها رويش مي نوشتند: «از كشتن ما دست برداريد، ما هم انسان هستيم.» دولت آنهايی را هم كه نمی مردند، روانه ی زندان مي كرد

!مگر غير از شما، چه وجدانی اين را تحمل مي كند”
― Ahmet Kaya

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“ما کُردها با هزاران نوع شکنجه دست و پنجه نرم کرده ایم. زندان هایتان هرچقدر کوچک تر، اراده ی ما بزرگ تر خواهد بود”
― Ahmet Kaya

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“زۆرجار کە پێدەکەنیم، پێکەنینم بەوانە دەهات کە دەیانویست کورد لەناو ببەن”
― Ahmet Kaya

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