Arif Şentürk ( mk, Ариф Шентурк/Arif Šenturk; 29 October 1941 – 15 February 2022) was a

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Life and career

Şentürk's father was of Kosovar

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while his mother of

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origin. He was born in

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, Macedonia. He immigrated with his family to Turkey in 1956 after graduating

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primary school in

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. First, his family settled in

Kırklareli Province Kırklareli Province ( tr, ) is a province in northwestern Turkey on the west coast of the Black Sea. The province neighbours Bulgaria to the north along a long border. It borders the province of Edirne to the west and the province of Tekirda ...

after that they moved to Kazlıçeşme

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Zeytinburnu Zeytinburnu (literally, ''Olive Cape'') is a working-class neighbourhood, municipality (belediye) and district on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey, on the shore of the Marmara Sea just outside the walls of the ancient city, beyond the fortres ...

. Once he worked as a barber in

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. He attended Edirnekapı and

Florya Florya is a neighborhood ( tr, mahalle) belonging to the Bakırköy district of the greater Istanbul, Turkey. It is located along Marmara Sea, and borders to the northeast the neighborhood of Yeşilköy, to the northwest that of Küçükçekmece. ...

Music Community Home. Arif Şentürk took the examination of the TRT Türkü and won it. He was endorsed by Nida Tüfekçi. Arif, who was known for compiling a lot of traditional Rumelian Turkish, Macedonian, Albanian and Gypsy folk songs, produced twelve albums. The most famous songs of his are "Deryalar", "Ramize", "Safiye", "Debreli Hasan", "Ani Mor Hatixhe", "Oj Kosovo", and "Bitola Moj Roden Kraj" composed by Ajri Demirovski. He died on 15 February 2022, and was buried at

Yedikule Yedikule ( en, Seven Towers) is a neighborhood of Fatih, Istanbul in Turkey. It is named after the seven-towered Yedikule Fortress, which surrounds the neighborhood. Urbanized in the 16th century, the neighborhood became a hub for industrial and a ...

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Discography

* ''Meliha'', 23 December 2008 * ''Kına Havası'', 24 December 1998 * ''Nazikem'', 4 June 1990 * ''Deryalar'', 9 January 1987 * ''Hamdi'', 9 January 1987 * ''Yemen'', 9 January 1987

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Senturk, Arif 1941 births 2022 deaths People from Kumanovo 20th-century Turkish male singers 21st-century Turkish male singers Turkish people of Albanian descent Turkish people of Bosniak descent