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Beren Saat (born 26 February 1984) is a Turkish actress born and raised in Ankara. Since the beginning of her career, she has received critical acclaim and numerous accolades for her acting. While studying ...
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Leyla Hazal Kaya (born 1 October 1990) is a Turkish actress and model. Kaya is best known for playing the role of Feriha Sarrafoglu in the television series Adını Feriha Koydum (2011–2012) and Filiz in ...
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Zerrin Özer (born 4 November 1957) is a Turkish pop singer. She has been called Turkey's Janis Joplin by several fans. She has many famous hits such as "Gönül" (Heart), "Son Mektup" (The Last Letter) ...
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Ramazan Kubat (born 4 October 1974), better known as Kubat, is a Turkish folk singer and composer distinguished with his particular style and his applied use of electronic instruments in his songs.
2015 killing of a Turkish university student who resisted attempted rape
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Özgecan Aslan (22 October 1995 – 11 February 2015) was a Turkish university student who was murdered while resisting attempted rape on 11 February 2015 on a minibus in Mersin, Turkey. Her burnt body was ...
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Berkin Elvan (5 January 1999 – 11 March 2014) was a 15-year-old Kurdish–Turkish boy who was hit on the head by a tear-gas canister fired by a police officer in Istanbul during the June 2013 anti-government ...
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Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu ( born Kemal Karabulut, 17 December 1948) is a Turkish social democratic politician. He is leader of the CHP ("Republican People's Party") and has been Leader of the Main Opposition ...
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Zaro Aga (Turkish: Zaro Ağa, Kurdish: زارۆ ئاغا) was a Kurdish man who claimed to be one of the longest-living humans ever. He claimed birth between 1774 and 1777, and died on 29 June 1934 in I ...
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Pir Sultan Abdal (born Haydar) is an important religious figure in Alevism, who is thought to be of Turkmen origin and to have been born in the village of Banaz in present-day Sivas Province, Turkey. He ...
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Şerif Cırık, popularly was known as Aşık Mahsuni Şerif, was an ashik, folk musician, composer, poet, and author from Turkey. He is remembered as the most renowned and cherished Ashik. Mahzuni Şerif was ...
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Mehmet Ruhi Su (20 October 1912 – 20 September 1985) was a Turkish opera singer, Turkish folk singer and saz virtuoso of probable Armenian origin.
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Âşık Veysel (born Veysel Şatıroğlu; 25 October 1894 – 21 March 1973) was a Turkish ashik and highly regarded poet of the Turkish folk literature. He was born in the Sivrialan village of the Şarkışla d ...
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Güler Duman (born June 25, 1967) is a Turkish singer, songwriter, composer, TV host and music teacher. She concentrates on Turkish folk music.
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Figen Yüksekdağ Şenoğlu (born 19 December 1971) is a Turkish politician and journalist, who was a former co-leader of the left-wing Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey from 2014 to 2017, serving ...
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Hıdır Gürel (1920 – 5 November 1976), better known by his pen name Âşık İbretî, was a turkish ashik, poet and folk singer. His pen name means "the Exemplary Ashik". His poems were written in the tradition ...