Seyhan Soylu is a well-known figure in Turkey, a high profile trans woman [1] and media figure who has ventured into politics several times.
Seyhan Soylu was born in Istanbul in 1966. [2] as Hakan Kapgit. [3]
In 2007, she put herself forward to stand as a candidate for the DSP in the TBMM. [2] In 2008 she was arrested as part of ongoing investigations into the Ergenekon scandal. [4] In 2018 she put herself forward to stand as a candidate for the Felicity Party. [5]
Until 2012 she was director of the Turkish television channel 24 TV, where she was involved in the controversial program Penitents Compete . [6]
She is the owner of Business Channel Turkiye.
Sertab Erener is a Turkish singer, songwriter and composer. With her coloratura soprano voice, she started working as a backing vocalist for Sezen Aksu, and with Aksu's help she released her first studio album in the 1990s. Because of her education in classical music, she initially had difficulties in performing pop music. Although she did experimental works from time to time, she eventually preferred to focus on making pop music instead of avant-garde works, in order to make her music heard by a larger audience. In some of her works, she combined Western music and Eastern music, and benefited from operas as well as classical Turkish music with ethnic elements. With her entrance to Europe's market in the early 2000s, many of her works were also sold in Turkey as well as European countries.
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