AHMET KAYA

Best musician that Turkey has ever

seen

Today we will understand him with science

And philosopy and judge him with history.
Ahmet Kaya was born in Malatya in 1957, as the fifth
child of a Kurdish father from Adıyaman and a
Turkish mother from Malatya. He studied primary
school in Malatya. He was introduced to music at the
age of six through the baglama gifted by his father.
He started working in a shop selling records and
cassettes during his remaining time from school.
Because his family had financial difficulties, they
migrated to Istanbul, in 1972 and he had to leave
school.
I wasn't talking to them;
because I couldn't talk to them.
Their clothes were different,
their language was different.
There was a girl at our school;
Everyone has a first love, a
childhood love. One day I went
and said, "Let’s have
conversation just for 5 minutes,
like you always run away from
me, I just want to talk." She
said to me, "You're welcome." It
hurt me so much that I said, "I
would like to ask you too." You
know, I didn't know the meaning
of "You're welcome" at that
time, so I thought it was a
swear word.
He suffered economic difficulties due to
unemployment. Meanwhile, his wife broke
up with him. Hoping to get rid of these
economic problems, he tried to go to
prison by "acting against the system",
as he put it. Finally, after long
efforts, he released his album Ağlama
Bebek in 1984. He gave a small concert
at Istanbul Şan Theatre. The album was
confiscated the year it was released,
but its censorship was later lifted. In
1985, for his second album, Holding on
to Pain, he signed an agreement with
Change Studio, just like the first
album. He married with Gülten Hayaloğlu
after the album was released.
At the award ceremonies held at the Princess
Hotel congress of the Magazine Journalists
Association on February 10, 1999, He won the best
artist of the year and his speech at the seremony
changed attitude towards him: "For this award, I
thank the Human Rights Association, Saturday
Mothers, all press workers and all of Turkey." "I
thank the people. I have a statement: I am
currently preparing and I will sing a Kurdish
song in the album that will be released in the
coming days and shoot a video clip for this song.
I know that there are courageous television
broadcasters among us who will broadcast this
clip, and if they broadcast it, how they will
deal with the people of Turkey."
I cannot explain now what
happened that night. I'm
sure you all know the
subject. I wish that night
had never happened, I'm
sure we wouldn't have lost
him so soon if that night
hadn't happened.
I just want to say that I
hate racism and I think we
should judge people by
their humanity.
On November 16, 2000, while recording his album "Hoşçakalın Gözüm", he died
of a heart attack at his home in the Porte de Versailles district of Paris.
He was buried in the 71st section of Paris' Père Lachaise Cemetery in a
ceremony attended by over 30,000 people on 17 November 2000.
Ahmet Kaya according
to the new generation

Most of us love him, there

may be some among us who
don't like him,they may be
right in their reasons for
not liking him. But let's
face it, we all laugh at the
memes about him.
The Best Of Ahmet Kaya