Short introduction

Ibrahim Tatlises (Kurdish Îbrahîm Tatlises, Turkish Ibrahim Tatlises; born 1952) is a Turkish singer withinside the Arabic style. Performs songs in Turkish and Kurmanji.

Early life

Born on January 1, 1952 in Turkey in Sanliurfa in an Arab-Kurdish own circle of relatives. The final call at delivery is “Tatli”, which means “candy” in Turkish. After Ibrahim went on stage, he followed the pseudonym Tatlises, which means “candy voice”. Tatlises changed into born into a totally bad own circle of relatives and changed into certainly considered one among seven children. He labored on a creation webweb page for an extended time. There, one of the filmmakers from the town of Adana as soon as heard his voice, whereupon Ibrahim started to seem on tiers in diverse Adana cafés after which in Ankara and Istanbul.

Career

In 1975 Tatlises launched his first document entitled “Ayaginda Kundura”. In total, extra than forty albums of the singer had been launched. Ibrahim Tatlises additionally made and performed in diverse films, produced communicate shows, labored as a director, screenwriter, wrote poems, labored as a journalist and composer. Companies owned via way of means of Ibrahim Tatlisses concentrate on creation, food, movie and tune, technology, tourism, aviation and vehicle manufacturing, publishing, etc.

In the elections in July 2007, Ibrahim Tatlises ran as a member of the young people birthday birthday celebration in Istanbul, however did now no longer obtain the minimal votes required for the elections.

In the mid-2000s, Ibrahim Tatlises based his personal tune channel Tatlises TV, on which his clips and clips of famous Turkish pop singers (Mustafa Sandal, Sibel Jan, Mahsun Kirmyzygyul, Hussein Turan) “turned”. There changed into additionally a musical communicate display Ibo Show at the channel, wherein Ibrahim Tatlises changed into the everlasting host till early 2011.

On March 14, 2011, Ibrahim Tatlises changed into attacked after the Ibo Show in Istanbul, inflicting extreme head accidents and astounding survival. About eleven bullets have been fired from a submachine gun into the singer’s car, which left the territory of the tv middle on the principle street. four balls hit Tatlises, the relaxation changed into accounted for via way of means of his assistant. In Germany, the singer underwent operations, certainly considered one among which lasted four.five hours. Tatlises changed into in a coma for a few time, and then he underwent an extended rehabilitation course, however changed into not able to absolutely recover: speech and motion coordination are impaired, the singer’s left hand nearly does now no longer work.

A few months after the September 2011 attack, Tatlises married Aishegyul Yilmaz withinside the health facility bed, with whom he had a romantic dating for approximately 12 years. However, the wedding did now no longer final long: in early December 2013, the couple divorced due to the singer’s infidelity. In April 2013, Aishegyul Yilmaz Ibrahim Tatlises gave delivery to a daughter, Elif Ada, who have become the 6th infant of the “emperor of Turkish pop tune”. In April 2012, Tatlises seemed for the primary time after an tried homicide on country wide tv, in which he acquired the award for “excellent fulfillment in his work”.

Career highlights

In the 1980s, the Turkish authorities banned using Kurdish. At a live performance in Sweden in December 1986, he had sung Kurdish peoples songs and changed into consequently charged with separatist propaganda, however changed into determined now no longer responsible in 1987. The indictment changed into disregarded after he confirmed regret. In 1988, at a cultural competition in Usak, he changed into requested via way of means of businessman Mehmet Yilmaz to sing a Kurdish peoples track, however refused, saying, “I am Kurdish, however the regulation prohibits me from making a song in Kurdish.” He changed into charged with this on September 19, 1988.

In 1994 there have been symptoms that Turkish guerrilla counter-corporations attacked Kurdish commercial enterprise human beings, consisting of Tatlises, Idris Ozbir, Halis Toprak and Necdet Ulucan. In 1998 it changed into said that Tatlises had presented to behave as an middleman among the authorities and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) throughout the armed conflict. He recorded a track with the Iranian Kurdish musician Abdollah Alijani Ardeshir.

In 2018, he publicly supported the Turkish navy operation in Afrin towards the civil safety units.

On March 14, 2011, he changed into attacked and critically injured at the head. At 00:30 neighborhood time, he and his spokeswoman, Buket Çakici, have been shot via way of means of unknown attackers after leaving the workplace of Turkish personal broadcaster Beyaz TV after his weekly tv program. When they were given into their vehicle, Tatlises changed into hit via way of means of a bullet that entered the returned of his head and emerged thru the front. Çakici changed into additionally hit withinside the neck, however survived the attack. The perpetrators carried Kalashnikov rifles and fled in a black car. He changed into taken to the Acibadem Hospital in Istanbul for emergency treatment. He underwent a four-hour operation to have the last bullets removed. After that he changed into in a solid condition. He regained attention 5 days later. After a week, the medical doctors introduced that he could be well. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited him and introduced that he’s convalescing well. The Turkish police arrested round 20 human beings concerned withinside the attack. On April 7, Tatlises left the Acibadem Hospital with a police escort and traveled to Ataturk International Airport, in which the Ministry of Health’s Hawker 900XP ambulance flight flew to Germany for in depth rehabilitation on the Murnau Trauma Clinic.