İsmail Türüt

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İsmail Türüt (b. 8 June 1965 at Rize, Turkey) is a Turkish folk singer from the Black Sea Region.

1 Albums
2 Plan Yapmayın Plan Controversy
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Albums

Laz Uşağı
Komşu Kızı Lazmısın Çerkezmisin
Ondan Kaynana Olmaz
Çay Güzeli
Güzellere Bayram Var Hamsi
Kara Sevdalı Fatma
Zorla Güzellik Olmaz
Oy Canan
Akıllı Ol
Hamsi Gözlüm
Suzan
Deniz Gözlüm
Karadeniz Sofrası
Piryoz
Deli Zekiye
Dünya Tatlısı

[edit] Plan Yapmayın Plan Controversy

In his latest album, Dünya Tatlısı, released late 2007 contains a song named Plans, don't make any plans (Turkish: Plan Yapmayın Plan), which has created a major controversy in Turkey.

The lyrics take aim at Americans, Russians, Kurds, Christians, Armenians and the Turks who support them, telling them not to make plans against the Black Sea region of Turkey. The lyrics praise ^[1] Ogün Samast and Yasin Hayal the alleged killers of the Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink and end with "If a person betrays the country, he is finished off".^[2]^[3]

Whereas the song does not name Ogün, Yasin and Hrant Dink explicitly, a video clip posted on youtube shows images of Ogün, Yasin and Hrant Dink throughout the song.^[4]

Several organizations including The Human Rights Association, Association of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed Peoples and Strong Turkey Party have all filed criminal complaints. İstanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office has begun an investigation.

Hakan Öztekin of Çarşamba claimed responsibility for making the video clip. He claims that he didn't have a political motive when creating the clip, but created the clip as a hobbyist.^[5]