İsmail Türüt (born 8 June 1965) is a

Turkish folk music Turkish folk music (''Türk Halk Müziği'') is the traditional music of Turkish people living in Turkey influenced by the cultures of Anatolia and former territories in Europe and Asia. Its unique structure includes regional differences under ...

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from the

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"Plan Yapmayın Plan" controversy

His 2007 album, Dünya Tatlısı, contains a song named ''Plans, don't make any plans'' ( tr, Plan Yapmayın Plan), which 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 The Black Sea Region ( tr, Karadeniz Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey. The largest city in the region is Samsun. Other big cities are Trabzon, Ordu, Tokat, Giresun, Rize, Amasya and Sinop. It is bordered by the Marmara Region to the ...

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. The lyrics praise Alperen Hearths and

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, the alleged killers of the Armenian-Turkish journalist

Hrant Dink Hrant Dink ( hy, Հրանդ Տինք; Western ; 15 September 1954 – 19 January 2007) was a Turkish-Armenian intellectual, editor-in-chief of ''Agos'', journalist and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspa ...

and end with "If a person betrays the country, he is finished off". 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.

Yasin Hayal Yasin Hayal (born 1981) is a Turkish criminal who was sentenced to a life sentence for inciting the assassination of Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. He has served a ten-month prison term for bombing a McDonald's restaurant in the city o ...

of ''

Trabzon Trabzon (; Ancient Greek: Tραπεζοῦς (''Trapezous''), Ophitic Pontic Greek: Τραπεζούντα (''Trapezounta''); Georgian: ტრაპიზონი (''Trapizoni'')), historically known as Trebizond in English, is a city on the Bl ...

'' 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.

Television programmes

* 1997-2001, 2003-2005 Türüt Show (

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) * 2001-2003 Türüt Show (

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) * 2005-2011 Türüt Show (

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) * 2011-2013 Türütten Türküler ( Meltem TV) * 2013-2015 Türüt Show ( Mavi Karadeniz TV) * 2005-2009 Fıkralarla Türkiye (

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Television series

* 2001-2003 Tirvana

* 2009-2011 N'aber Bacanak

Notes

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Turut, Ismail 1965 births Living people People from Rize Province People from Rize Turkish nationalists Turkish male composers 20th-century Turkish male musicians 21st-century Turkish male musicians Turkish lyricists Kemençe players Turkish male songwriters 20th-century Turkish folk musicians 21st-century Turkish folk musicians