Hasret Gültekin

Hasret Gültekin (May 1, 1971 - July 2, 1993) was a Alevi-Kurdish-Turkish musician and poet who was murdered, along with 37 other people, in the Sivas Province of Turkey when a radical Islamist mob set fire to the hotel at which he was staying. He was born in the Han village of Sivas as the third child of Süleyman and Hacıhanım Gültekin. He started playing bağlama at the age of six and dropped out of high school to pursue a career in music. He completed his first album Gün Olaydı (If It Had Been Day) when he was only sixteen years old. In 1989, he demonstrated his mastery of the şelpe technique of bağlama on his second album Gece ile Gündüz Arasında (Between Night and Day). His third album Rüzgarın Kanatları (The Wings of the Wind) was released in 1991. Later that year he married Yeter Gültekin. On July 2, 1993, he went to Sivas to take part in the Pir Sultan Abdal Cultural Festival alongside many other musicians, authors, poets and intellectuals. He died at the age of 21 during the arson attack on the Madimak Hotel where he was staying. His wife gave birth to their son, Roni Hasret Gültekin, three months after his death. Discography: Celal Oglan; 1985 Gün Olaydı (If It Had Been Day); 1987 Gece İle Gündüz arasında (Between night and day); 1989 Hayat (Life); 1989 Rüzgarın Kanatlarında (On the wings of the wind); 1991 Egenin Iki Yakasi (The two shores of the Aegean); 1994 Seçmeler (Selected (works)); 1994 with other artists: Newroz – Kürtçe ezgiler (Newroz – Kurdish songs) (1990) Newroz 2 İhsan Güneş – Karayılan (1992) Newroz 3; 1993 Türküler Yalan Söylemez (songs do not lie) Bitmeyen Türküler – Dostlar Muhabbeti (Not ending songs – Talk between friends) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.