İsmail Türüt

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

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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]

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]

Notes

  1. ^ "Controversial video gives Turkey goose bumps". Today's Zaman. 2007-09-17. http://todayszaman.com/tz-web/yazarDetay.do?haberno=122252. Retrieved 2007-10-03. 
  2. ^ "Prosecutor opens probe into Türüt’s racist song". Today's Zaman. 2007-09-18. http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=122438. Retrieved 2007-09-18. 
  3. ^ ""Plan Yapmayın Plan" Türküsü". http://www.damacana.org/2007/09/plan-yapmayin-plan-turkusu.html. Retrieved 2007-09-18. 
  4. ^ "plan yapmayın plan". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxU4-ZwO_0. Retrieved 2007-09-18. 
  5. ^ "Olay Klibi Hazırladığı İddia Edilen Gencin Babası Konuştu". http://www.haberler.com/olay-klibi-hazirladigi-iddia-edilen-gencin-babasi-haberi/. Retrieved 2007-09-22. 

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