Erdem is a masculine Turkish first name and a surname. It means "virtue, merit". It is also the name of one of the Turkic Kangar tribes.

Given name[link]

• Erdem Başçı, Turkish economist
• Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Turkish musician
• Erdem Moralioğlu, Turkish-Canadian fashion designer
• Erdem Türetken, Turkish basketball player

Surname[link]

• Alparslan Erdem, Turkish-German footballer
• Arif Erdem, Turkish footballer
• Bülent Erdem, Turkish fencer
• Can Erdem, Turkish footballer
• Mülayim Erdem, Turkish footballer
• Naci Erdem, Turkish footballer
• Nazim Erdem, Australian rugby union player
• Reha Erdem, Turkish film director and screenwriter
• Sinan Erdem, Turkish volleyball player
• Zeynel Abidin Erdem, Turkish business tycoon

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Serdar Ortaç (Turkish pronunciation: [seɾˌdaɾ oɾˈtatʃ], born 16 February 1970) is one of the popular singers of the Turkish pop folk music since the 1990s.

Discography[link]

Appearances[link]

See also[link]

• Music of Turkey
• Turkish pop music
• Mustafa Sandal
• Sezen Aksu
• Tarkan
• Kenan Doğulu

References[link]

• Biyografi.info – Biography of Serdar Ortaç (Turkish)

External links[link]

• Serdar Ortaç at the Internet Movie Database
• Serdar Ortaç's official website (Turkish) / (English)
• Serdar Ortaç's official Fan club
• Video clip of his song Gitme ("Don't go")
• Video clip of his song Dansöz ("The Belly Dancer")
• Video clip of his song Mesafe ("Distance")
• Video Clip of his song Sor ("Ask")

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Željko Joksimović	Best Male Performer in the Balkans 2010	Succeeded by [to be determined]

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Neşet Ertaş (born 1938 in Çiçekdağı, Kırşehir) is a Turkish folk music singer, lyrics writer and a virtuoso of the traditional Turkish instrument bağlama. His profession in Turkish is known as halk şairi, which literally means "folk poet".

He was born in 1938, in Kırtıllar, a village in Kırşehir to his father Muharrem Ertaş, also a halk şairi, and his mother Döne Koç. Neşet Ertaş went to primary school for only 2 years, Before this he used to play the violin then the saz (the Turkish national instrument, baglama).

Neşet Ertaş interprets musical pieces of the Abdal tradition, following his father. With his forceful saz, his warm voice pure and simple language has Neşet Ertaş in a short time gathered people from Central Anatolia then the whole of Turkey.

External links[link]

• Records from Kalan Muzik
• Performance on youtube