Koyunbaba (or Seyit Ali) was a saint who lived in the city of Osmancık in

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, in the 15th century. Koyunbaba (whose epithet means "sheep father") was a

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in northwestern Turkey. The guitar suite ''Koyunbaba'' by

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was named after this saint.

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