Abdullah Öcalan, also known as Apo, is a political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Urfa, officially called Şanlıurfa, is a city in southeastern Turkey and the capital of Şanlıurfa Province. The city was known as Edessa in Hellenistic times. Urfa is situated on a plain about 80 km east of the Euphrates River. Its climate features extremely hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters.
Nuray Hafiftaş is a Turkish folk music artist, musician, composer, lyricist, songwriters, bağlama virtuoso of folk, Arabesque, İlahi, Turkish classical music and Azerbaijani folk music.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish director, screenwriter, photographer and actor. His film Winter Sleep (2014) won the Palme d'Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, while five of his films have been selected as Turkey's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
İbrahim Tatlıses is a Turkish folk singer and former actor of Arab-Kurdish descent. Since the 1970s he has been one of the best-known and most successful singers of the pop Arabesk style. Tatlıses has recorded 42 albums, including notable albums such as Ayağında Kundura and Selam Olsun and was the host of the highly popular television programme İbo Show. He was also a leading actor that appeared in several dozen films, and also has had many business ventures.
Şanlıurfa Province or simply Urfa Province is a province in southeastern Turkey. The city of Şanlıurfa is the capital of the province which bears its name. The area of the province is 18,584 km2 and its population was officially estimated at 2,143,020 as at 31 December 2021. The province is considered part of Turkish Kurdistan and has a Kurdish majority with a significant Arab and Turkish minority.
Neşet Ertaş was a Turkish folk music singer, lyricist, modern ashik and virtuoso of the traditional Turkish instrument the bağlama. His profession in Turkish is known as halk ozanı, which literally means "folk bard". Yaşar Kemal gave Ertaş his nickname, "Bozkırın Tezenesi", writing it in a book he gave him as a gift.
İbrahim Halil Baran is a Kurdish poet, politician, writer and designer. He is the party chairman for Partiya Kurdistani (PAKURD).
Çiğ köfte or chee kofta is a kofta dish that is a regional specialty of southeastern Anatolia in Edessa. The dish is served as an appetizer or meze, and it is closely related with kibbeh nayyeh from Lebanese cuisine.
Cem Filiz, better known by his stage name Cem Adrian, is a Turkish musician of Bosniak origin, singer-songwriter and record producer.
Bülent Ceylan is a German comedian and Kabarett artist. He plays several comic roles with frequent themes being the quirks of Germans from Turkish family backgrounds and people from Mannheim, told in the dialect of Mannheim.
Juan dela Cruz is a 2013 Philippine superhero television series starring Coco Martin. The drama series is broadcast in full high definition and is dubbed to be ABS-CBN's "most expensive and biggest drama" to date.
Behsat Üvez, was a Turkish singer, composer, and teacher. He was the founder of Barana.
Winter Sleep is a 2014 Turkish drama film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, adapted from the novella "The Wife" by Anton Chekhov and one subplot of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story is set in Anatolia and examines the significant divide between the rich and the poor as well as the powerful and the powerless in Turkey. It stars Haluk Bilginer, Demet Akbag and Melisa Sözen.
Ahmet Hisarlı, also known by the pen name Hisarlı Ahmet, was a Turkish ashik.
Erol Büyükburç was a Turkish singer-songwriter, pop music composer, and actor.
Subutay Kesgin, better known by his stage name Azer Bülbül, was a prominent Turkish folk singer and actor.
RockA is a Turkish music band, formed in 2005 in Ankara, generally producing works in nu metal, rapcore, alternative rock. Band, with producing amateur works for a long time period found a place in important activities and festivals and published their first major production in 2012 from DMC Music Company. Receiving support from Tarkan with the cover work of Tarkan (singer)'s cult song once affected a time period, published in 1997 Ölürüm Sana and Tarkan (singer)'s accompanying them in their music video turned all the medias eye to RockA in an instant.
The Wild Pear Tree is a 2018 Turkish drama film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It was also selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Ceylan Avcı is a Turkish singer, arranger, television presenter and actress. Her mother is from Bayburt, Bayburt Province, and her father is from Pertek, Tunceli Province. She emigrated to North Rhine-Westphalia, Duisburg, West Germany with her family at the age of 8 and lived there until she was 15. in 1990, she returned to Turkey with her family. Ceylan started her career in 1984 as a child singer and actress. She started her career by taking recurring roles in a number of movies and released her own studio albums. Her 1986 album, Seni Sevmeyen Ölsün, sold 1.3 million copies in Turkey. Her 2005 album, Ah Gönlüm, received a gold certification from Mü-Yap. She has twice won Best Female Folk Singer at the Kral TV Video Music Awards. She hosted a 2012–2016 years of music television talk show under the name of Ceylan Show that aired on Kanal 7 and Samanyolu TV.
