Ahmet Kaya was a Turkish Kurd folk music artist. Kaya was persecuted by Turkish nationalist celebrities and authorities. Kaya left Turkey in an act of self-exile, and moved to France, where he would shortly after die of a heart attack. He was granted the Musician of the Year Award in February 1999 during a controversial award ceremony involving Turkey's most popular singers, at which he declared that he wanted to sing a song in Kurdish. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Kaya) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
