Arif Şirin
Arif Şirin (February 10, 1949 – February 13, 2019), commonly known as Ozan Arif ("Arif the Bard"), was a Turkish male Turkish folk music artists, folk poetry, ashik, composer, teacher, and bağlama virtuoso, foremost known for his songs with lyrics propagating the Idealism ideology.
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| Birth name | Arif Şirin |
| Born | February 10, 1949 Kurtbeli, Çakrak, Alucra, Giresun, Turkey |
| Died | February 13, 2019 (aged 70) Ondokuz Mayıs University Medical School Hospital, Turkey |
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| Years active | 1970–2019 |
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Life
Şirin was born in his father's village Yükselen (Hapu) in Alucra district. By 1970, he had graduated from the Male Teacher's School in Samsun Province and worked as a primary school teacher in Terme from 1970 to 1979.[1] Following the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, he moved to Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany where he lived until his return to Turkey in 1991. He and fellow folk singer İsmail Türüt had been on trial for a song allegedly praising the assassination of Hrant Dink. Şirin and Türüt were acquitted in December 2009.[2] Şirin died on February 13, 2019, of laryngeal cancer in Ondokuz Mayıs University in the Medical School Hospital .[3]
References
- "Ozan Arif hayatını kaybetti! (Arif Şirin kimdir?)". CNN Türk (in Turkish). February 13, 2019. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
- 'Plan Yapmayın Plan'dan beraat ettiler Archived January 24, 2013, at archive.today Vatan
- "Ozan Arif's death Shared the land in two". Retrieved February 17, 2019.