Uğur Işılak

Işılak was born on 11 November 1971 in Velbert, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany to Ahmet Işılak and his wife Arife Işılak. He is originally from Ankara Province villages Şereflikoçhisar district. Işılak became involved with music at a young age. After completing his primary, secondary and high school education in West Germany, his family moved to Gelsenkirchen city, in 1983. He graduated from Selçuk University's Literature Faculty. Işılak speaks fluent German and semi-fluent English.[2]

Işılak began his career as a professional music career in 1987. He has gone in for more than a thousand cultural and art activities in Anatolia, West Europe, North America, North Africa and Middle East for almost 30 years. He made more than 20 records (albums). Among these, are important albums which were compiled and composed from important Turkish poets like Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman and Fatih Sultan Mehmet, poets representing parts of Turkey's 1000 year literary history. He was granted many awards for his cultural contributions. He made cultural and art programs for many Turkish media television channels particularly in TRT Haber, Kanal 7, Samanyolu TV, atv, 24, 360 and TRT Müzik. He is still making these programs.[3] In addition to these, he prepared the AK Party's election songs: "Haydi Anadolu" (Come on Anatolia) in 2002, "Herşey Türkiye İçin" (Turkey for Everything) in 2008, "İnandık Hakka" (We believe in God) and "Dombra" in 2014.[4]

After preparing Justice and Development Party's election songs, He was elected as an AK Party Member of Parliament at the June 2015 general election.

• Vatanımın Kurbanıyım (1987)
• Şafak Özlemi (1989)
• Yürüyelim Yiğitler (1991)
• Kime Kime Dum Duma (1993)
• Duy Sesimi (1996)
• Dönen Alçak Olsun (1998)
• Söyleyeceklerim Var (2000)
• Yıldırım Gibi (2001)
• Haydi Anadolu (Single) (2002)
• Ben Ağlarsam Kıyamet Kopar (2002)
• Kalabalık Yalnızlara & Ozanca (2004)
• Kalabalık Yalnızlara (2005)
• Sil Baştan (2006)
• Aşkın Cenazesi Var (2007)
• Sizin Gibi Değilim (2008)
• Artık Geç Oldu (2009)
• Miras 1 (2011)
• Üstad (2012)
• Makam-ı Sultan (2013)
• Akifçe (2014)
• 2 CD 2 Kelam (2015)
• Aklıma Düşünce/Dombra (2017)

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