Coordinates	19°10′33″N97°20′37″N
Airline	Onur Air
Iata	8Q
Icao	OHY
Callsign	ONUR AIR
Founded	14 April 1992
Commenced	14 May 1992
Hubs	Atatürk International Airport
Bases	Adnan Menderes AirportAntalya AirportDalaman AirportMilas-Bodrum Airport
Frequent flyer	OnAir
Fleet size	30
Destinations	79
Company slogan
Headquarters	Istanbul, Turkey
Key people	Hayri İçli (CEO)
Website	www.onurair.com

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Onur Air () is an airline based in Istanbul, Turkey. It operates scheduled domestic services and charter flights to a large number of destinations throughout Europe from its main base at Atatürk International Airport. The airline is owned in equal parts by Cankut Bagana (its previous CEO), Hayri İçli (the CEO) and Ünsal Tülbentçi.

History

Onur Air was established on 14 April 1992. It started operations using a wet-leased Airbus A320 on 14 May 1992 with a flight to Ercan in Cyprus. Within 11 months three more aircraft were added to the fleet. By June 1995 Onur Air was operating a fleet of seven aircraft. By the end of 1995 it was operating nine aircraft.

In 1996 Ten Tour acquired the airline. Due to recession, Onur Air had to reduce the number of the planes in its fleet to 13 in 1998 and then to nine in 1999. But once again the fleet grew rapidly reaching 29 aircraft (present).

Egyptian Subsidiary

In June 2010 Onur Air board member Mehmet Pekpak announced plans to start a new airline in Egypt from December 2010. He explained the move is in part intended to address the drop in charter traffic to Turkey during the winter months by transferring capacity to Egypt. Onur Air plans to transfer at least two aircraft from Turkey to the Egyptian service. The service is still subject to approval by the Egyptian authorities.

Destinations

During the summer months (March-October) Onur Air operates an extensive operation from Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, İzmir to Continental Europe.

Fleet

The Onur Air fleet includes the following aircraft (as of 14 August 2010):

{| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse:collapse" |+ Onur Air fleet !Aircraft !Total !Passengers !Notes |- |Airbus A300-600R |6 |311 315 316 |operated for Saudi Arabian Airlines |- |Airbus A320-232 |4 |180 |two aircraft are operated for Kolavia |- |Airbus A320-233 |3 |180 | |- |Airbus A321-131 |2 |219 220 | |- |Airbus A321-231 |7 |219 220 |one aircraft is operated for Cham Wings Airlines |- |Airbus A330-322 |2 |356 358 |operated for Saudi Arabian Airlines |- |Airbus A330-342 |1 | | |- |McDonnell Douglas MD-88 |5 |165 | |- |align="center"|Total |align="center"|30 |align="center"| | |}

As of 23 May 2010, the average age of the Onur Air fleet is 13.7 years. On December 6th 2010 Onur Air withdraw all five remaining McDonnell Douglas MD-88 as part of the fleet renewal.

Incidents and accidents

On June 17, 2003, Onur Air Flight 2263, an MD-88 (registration TC-ONP) overshot the runway at Groningen Airport Eelde following an aborted take-off. There were no injuries, but the airline was accused of security breaches.

On May 12, 2005, Onur Air was denied access to Dutch airspace for a month. Several incidents were the cause of the suspension of the airline. Negotiations took place between the Dutch authorities and Onur Air and on May 24, 2005 Onur Air had permission to fly from and to the Netherlands again.

On 15 September 2006, the pilot of an Onur Air charter flight from Antalya Airport to Bristol International Airport scared his passengers prior to take-off when he refused to fly the aircraft, claiming it unsafe.

On January 1, 2007, the cargo hold of a MD-88 aircraft burst open upon landing at Atatürk International Airport, spilling luggage onto the runway.

On September 7, 2007, an Airbus A321 aircraft lost cabin pressure on a charter flight from Dalaman Airport to Birmingham Airport, resulting in an emergency landing at Atatürk International Airport. Passenger reports included a smoking engine and broken down oxygen masks.

References

External links

Official website

Category:Airlines of Turkey Category:IATA members Category:Airlines established in 1992

Coordinates	19°10′33″N97°20′37″N
Name	Sezen Aksu
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Fatma Sezen Yıldırım
Alias	Sezen Aksu
Born	July 13, 1954
Genre	Pop
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Years active	1975–present
Url	Official Website

Sezen Aksu (born: Fatma Sezen Yıldırım) (born July 13, 1954 in Denizli) is a Turkish pop music singer, song-writer and producer who sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Her nicknames include the "Queen of Turkish Pop" and Minik Serçe ("Little Sparrow").

Aksu's influence on Turkish pop and world music has continued since her debut in 1975, and has been reinforced by her patronage of and collaboration with many other musicians, including Sertab Erener, Şebnem Ferah, Aşkın Nur Yengi, Hande Yener, and Levent Yüksel. Her work with Tarkan resulted in continental hits like "Şımarık" and "Şıkıdım," and her collaboration with Goran Bregović widened her international audience.

Biography

Sezen Aksu was born in Sarayköy, Turkey. Her family moved to İzmir when she was 3 years old and she spent her childhood and early youth there. After finishing high school, she began studying at the local agricultural institute, but left college to concentrate on music.

Along with her close friend Ajda Pekkan, Aksu is credited with laying the foundations of Turkish pop music in the 1970s. Her sound has also spread across the Balkans and Greece. It was this sound that changed the face of the Eurovision song contest when her protégé Sertab Erener won in 2003. Aksu has also toured in Europe and the U.S to critical appraise.

She has championed a variety of causes, including women's rights, the environment, and educational reform in Turkey. Aksu has been married and divorced four times, but kept the name from her second marriage to Ali Engin Aksu, a doctor of geology who currently resides in Canada. She has a son with Sinan Özer.

Career

Sezen Aksu released her first single, Haydi Şansım/Gel Bana (Come on My Luck/Come to Me) in 1975 under the name of Sezen Seley. However, she remained undiscovered until her 1976 single Olmaz Olsun/Vurdumduymaz (Wish It Never Happened/Insensitive) reached number one in the Turkish charts. Her first album was 1978's Serçe (Sparrow), which was to give her the nickname, penned by a Turkish journalist.

An Aksu drive finally got Turkey to apply for the Eurovision Song contest in the mid-70s. Ironically however, even though she competed in the national finals for the competition three times - "Küçük Bir Aşk Masalı" (A Little Love Tale) was a duet with Özdemir Erdoğan, "Heyamola" was performed as a trio with Coşkun Demir and Ali Kocatepe and "1945" was her solo performance - none got the chance to represent Turkey abroad. It was to be left to her pupil Erener to win the Eurovision and realise Aksu's dream to push her musical vision further into Europe.

In the 80's, Aksu had a relationship with producer Onno Tunç that was both romantic and professional. As a couple they put their signatures to works that broke new ground in Turkish pop music, such as Sen Ağlama (Don't Cry), Git (Go), Sezen Aksu'88 and Sezen Aksu Söylüyor (Sezen Aksu Sings). Her music matured in the 90's, when she co-produced her best selling album to-date Gülümse (Smile) with Tunç. The A-1 track from the album called Hadi Bakalım (Come On Now) was a hit in Turkey and Europe, and was published as a single in Germany. It was to be later rediscovered in Europop by singer Loona as Rhythm of the Night. She also began to produce albums for her vocalists, notably producing Aşkın Nur Yengi's debut album Sevgiliye (To a Lover) again with Tunç. She was to repeat her success with artists Erener and Yüksel also.

Parting ways with Tunç, in 1995, Aksu branched out with the experimental album Işık Doğudan Yükselir (Light Rises From the East), drawing both on western classical and regional Turkish musical traditions. This album made her name outside Turkey and gave her a world music following across Europe. In 1996, she released Düş Bahçeleri (Dream Gardens) as a tribute to Tunç, who died that same year tragically when his private plane crashed. In 1997, she released Düğün ve Cenaze (The Wedding And The Funeral), this time collaborating with Goran Bregović.

She returned to her roots with Adı Bende Saklı (Its Name Is Hidden In Me), which was released in 1998. She began to use experimental sounds and was once again pushing Turkish pop into the future. Aksu continued with this trend with her subsequent albums Deliveren (Crazymaker), Şarkı Söylemek Lazım (Gotta Sing) which also featured former Sparks bassist Martin Gordon as engineer/mixer (and also as bass player on her subsequent European tour), Yaz Bitmeden (Before The Summer Ends) between the years 2000 - 2003. After a two year hiatus, she returned with Bahane (Excuse) in 2005. That same year she released Kardelen (Snowdrop) where all proceeds went to charity, and before the end of 2005 released a Bahane/Remixes (Excuse/Remixes) double-CD album which contained the original Bahane album in disc one and the remixes of songs in Bahane in disc two. At the end of the year her albums Bahane, Kardelen and the re-released album Şarkı Söylemek Lazım were the three best-selling albums in the country.

In 2005 she was featured in Fatih Akin's documentary film "" with a performance of the song "Istanbul Hatirasi."

Aksu has recently been re-releasing all her old classics digitally remastered and with specially designed new sleeves. After her concert tour in summer 2006.

Sezen Aksu performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London, on 7 October 2007. After Zeki Muren, she was only the second Turkish artist to perform at the prestigious venue.

In 2008 Aksu released her album called Deniz Yıldızı through Starfish Records. And in 2009 she released her latest album Yürüyorum Düş Bahçelerinde which sold over 100 000 copies during the first week of its release. The album contains new original songs as well as some older songs which were composed by Sezen Aksu for other singers, most notably Çakkıdı, Kibir, Yok Ki.

Discography

Music Albums

1977: Allahaısmarladık

1978: Serçe

1980: Sevgilerimle

1981: Ağlamak Güzeldir

1982: Firuze

1984: Sen Ağlama

1986: Git

1988: Sezen Aksu'88

1989: Sezen Aksu Söylüyor

1991: Gülümse

1993: Deli Kızın Türküsü

1995: Işık Doğudan Yükselir

1996: Düş Bahçeleri

1997: Düğün ve Cenaze

1998: Adı Bende Saklı

2000: Deliveren

2002: Şarkı Söylemek Lazım

2003: Yaz Bitmeden

2005: Bahane

2005: Bahane Remixes

2005: Kardelen

2008: Deniz Yıldızı

2009: Yürüyorum Düş Bahçeleri'nde...

Acting/Musicals

Sezen Aksu Aile Gazinosu - (Sezen Aksu Family Music Hall) (1982)

Bin Yıl Önce Bin Yıl Sonra - (1000 Years Before, 1000 Years Later) (1986)

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See also

Turkish Wikipedia and Sezen Aksu

Notes

References

sezen.onlinecosmos.com Sezen Aksu.

SezenAksu.Biz Sezen Aksu.

Sezen-Aksu.com Sezen-Aksu.com.

Sezen.net Sezen.net.

Sezen Aksu (June 19, 2002). The Guardian.

Songs Must Be Sung (November, 2002). 6 Moons.

Sezen Aksu And Her Children (September 15, 2004). DEUTSCHE WELLE.

Producer for Sezen Aksu

External links

Sezen Aksu Video Klipleri

Can Dündar - Hey gidi günler!

The Official Sezen Aksu Web Site

The Sezenciler Fansite

sezen.onlinecosmos.com

Sezen Aksu Dinle

Category:1954 births Category:Living people Category:People from Denizli Category:Turkish female singers Category:Turkish musicians Category:Turkish singers

Samim (full name Samim Winiger) is a Swiss producer of dance music. With Michal Ho he brought out several tracks under the name "Samim & Michal". In 2004, Samim temporarily stopped his work after he developed cancer. However, shortly after he brought out several 12-inch singles. His breakthrough in Europe was in the summer of 2007, with the eccentric number Heater ("Get Physical") which became a summer hit and was included on the Ministry of Sound 2008 compilation The Rush. The single was released in the Netherlands on 27 September 2007 and reached 6th in the Dutch top 40. Heater made 11th in the UK. In September 2007 his first solo-album Flow also appeared.

Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Swiss musicians

Coordinates	19°10′33″N97°20′37″N
Name	Orhan Gencebay
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Orhan Kencebay
Born	August 04, 1944
Origin	Samsun, Turkey
Genre	World fusion, Arabesque, Turkish folk, Turkish classic, psychedelic, pop folk
Occupation	Singer, composer, music producer, music director, arranger, actor
Years active	1963–present
Instrument	Baglama, tanbur, violin, sitar, guitar, ney, piano, cumbus, oud, bouzouki, percussion

Orhan Gencebay (born August 4, 1944 in Samsun, Turkey as Orhan Kencebay) is a Turkish musician, bağlama virtuoso, composer, singer, arranger, music producer, music director, and actor.

Early life and musical background

Orhan was born in the coastal town of Samsun on August 4, 1944. He started learning music at the age of 6, taking violin and mandolin lessons from Emin Tarakci who was an old Classical Musician from the Ukraine Conservatoire. At the age of 7, Orhan started playing the bağlama (a traditional Turkish instrument), and continued taking traditional Turkish folk music lessons. At 10, he created his first composition. At 13, he started playing the tambur, an instrument often used in Turkish classical music to improve himself in the theoretical and practical details of Turkish classical music.

During his high school years, he performed in Classical and Traditional Turkish Folk Music societies playing the tambur and baglama, taught music lessons in his own music courses, and took part in organizing community music centers in Istanbul and Samsun.

From 16, he became interested in jazz and rock music, and played tenor saxophone in wind orchestras. He entered the Turkish conservatory in Istanbul, and stayed there for 4 years. In the military, he kept on playing saxophone in the military brass band.

Career

At 20 and 22, he passed the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) exams, allowing him to become a resident baglama player at the network for several months.

In 1966 he got an excellent grade in National Baglama Contest with Arif Sağ and Cinucen Tanrikorur, two other contemporary masters of Turkish music.

In the late sixties he collaborated with a wide range of musicians in performances and film music. Between 1966 and 1968 he played baglama with Arif Sag in many records with singers such as Muzaffer Akgun, Yildiz Tezcan, Ahmet Sezgin, Sukran Ay, Sabahat Akkiraz, and Nuri Sesiguzel. Orhan also took part as a music director in many Turkish films such as Ana, Kuyu, Kizilirmak-Karakoyun. He also collaborated with many musicians from different genres, such as Erkin Koray, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Ismet Siral, Burhan Tonguc, Ozer Senay, Vedat Yildirimbora, Neşet Ertaş, Abdullah Nail Baysu. He appeared as a baglama performer and a well-known composer in musical societies, besides releasing several singles in genre of traditional Turkish Folk music. In 1968, he released his first "free-style" single "Sensiz Bahar Gecmiyor/Basa Gelen Cekilirmis", and was rewarded. During the 1970s he released many singles in a new genre that is a fusion of traditional Turkish Folk music, Turkish classical music, Western classical music, jazz, rock, country, progressive, psychedelic, Indian, Arabic, Spanish, and Greek music styles. Even though some musical societies such as TRT named that kind of World fusion music recordings Arabesque music, Orhan Gencebay refused the term arabesque, saying it was inadequate to define his style. In 1972, he founded the Kervan Record Company, which became very successful, attracting many other talented musicians such as Erkin Koray, Ajda Pekkan, Muazzez Abaci, Mustafa Sagyasar, Ahmet Ozhan, Kamuran Akkor, Semiha Yanki, Samime Sanay, Nese Karabocek, Bedia Akarturk, Nil Burak, Ziya Taskent, Semiramis Pekkan and Ferdi Ozbegen.

Throughout his career Orhan has performed leading roles in 36 movies, has been a composer almost in 90 movies, composed of about a thousand works, released almost 35 singles, 15 albums, and dozens of MC's. His albums sold out over 65 million legal copies.

As a composer, film musician, and as a person interested in other musical cultures, Orhan Gencebay is one of the major exponents of Turkish music in the 20th century.

In 2005, Gencebay was featured in the film by German Turkish director Fatih Akın, as well as on the film's soundtrack with the song "Hatasiz Kul Olmaz."

References

External links

Radikal ve Özgün Gencebay'cılık

Turkish Progressive Music and Orhan Gencebay

Orhan Gencebay review

Official Web Site

Fan Site

Category:1944 births Category:Living people Category:Turkish male singers Category:Turkish folk singers Category:Turkish singer-songwriters Category:Pop folk singers Category:Turkish-language singers Category:State Artists of Turkey Category:Turkish people of Crimean Tatar descent

Coordinates	19°10′33″N97°20′37″N
Name	Ahmet Kaya
Background	solo_singer
Born	28 October 1957Malatya, Turkey
Died	November 16, 2000 Paris, France
Instrument	Bağlama, Singing
Genre	Türk Halk Müziği
Occupation	Musician, poet
Years active	1985–2000
Url	www.ahmetkaya.com

Ahmet Kaya (28 October 1957 poet, singer, and a leading artist in Turkey. He generally sang in Turkish. Some of his most popular songs include "Protect Yourself", "My Heart is Bleeding", "A Strange Man", "Ayrılık Vakti", Koçero, and Ağladıkça ("As We Cry").

Career

Ahmet Kaya was the youngest child of his Kurdish father and Turkish mother. He first encountered music at age 9 in primary school. Ahmet Kaya worked for a while as a taxi driver in Istanbul before becoming well-known as a singer in the mid-1980s.

His first album, Ağlama Bebeğim, was released in 1985. His popularity continued to rise into the 1990s when in 1994 he released the album Şarkılarım Dağlara which was sold a record 2.8 million copies. All of his 1990 albums to chart-toppers.

During his career he recorded approximately 20 albums and was known for his protest music and positions on social justice. Recurring themes in his songs are love towards one's mother, sacrifice, and hope.

Awards controversy

At 10 February 1999 televised annual music awards ceremony, SHOW TV, at which he was to be named Musician of the Year, he spoke out about his Kurdish background and said that he wanted to produce music in his native Kurdish as naturally as he does in Turkish. He announced that he had recorded a song in Kurdish (Karwan, released on the Hoşçakalın Gözüm album in 2001) and intended to produce a video to accompany it. At this event he was attacked by some Turkish singers like Serdar Ortaç, Ebru Gündeş and many others because of his stance on the use of Kurdish.

Exile and death

Kaya went to France in June 1999 escaping various charges arising from his political views. Among them were the accusations that he had performed in front of a poster for the Kurdistan Workers Party at a 1993 concert in Germany, and that he had made statements in support of Abdullah Öcalan. In March 2000 he was sentenced in absentia to three years and nine months in prison on the charge of spreading separatist propaganda. Later, however, the visual media central to allegations demonstrating Kaya in front of the poster was proven to be forged. He died of a heart attack in Paris in 2000, at the age of 43, and is buried in Père Lachaise cemetery. His memory is kept alive by his wife Gülten.

Discography

Ağlama Bebeğim (1985) (Don't Cry My Baby)

Acılara Tutunmak (1985) (To Hold Onto the Pain)

Şafak Türküsü (1986) (Song of the Dawn)

An Gelir (1986) (A moment Comes)

Yorgun Demokrat (1987) (Tired Democrat)

Başkaldırıyorum (1988) (I Rebel)

Resitaller-1 (1989) (Recitals 1)

İyimser Bir Gül - Kod Adı Bahtiyar (1989) (An Optimistic Rose - Code Name is Bahtiyar)

Resitaller-2 (1990) (Recitals 2)

Sevgi Duvarı (1990) (Wall of Love)

Başım Belada (1991) (I'm in Trouble)

Dokunma Yanarsın (1992) (Don't touch, you burn)

Tedirgin (1993) (Anxious)

Şarkılarım Dağlara (1994) (My Songs to the Mountains)

Beni Bul (1995) (Find Me)

Yıldızlar ve Yakamoz (1996) (Stars and phosphorescence onto the sea)

Dosta Düşmana Karşı (1998) (Against allies and enemies)

Posthumous:

Hoşçakalın Gözüm (2001) (Farewell My Dear)

Biraz da Sen Ağla (2003) (Your Turn to Cry)

Kalsın Benim Davam (2005) (Let My Fight Remains)

Gözlerim Bin Yaşında (2006) (My Eyes Are A Thousand Years Old)

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References

CNN's report about his death

Interview with Ahmet Kaya

Interview with Gülten Kaya, Ahmet Kaya's wife

Documentary about Ahmet Kaya

Further reading

External links

His biographical information by Kurdish Institute of Paris

Asya Radyo :Devlet Ahmet Kaya'dan özür dilemeli haberi...

Yasaktube : Ahmet Kaya Videos

Nabervideo : All Ahmet Kaya Videos

Category:Turkish male singers Category:1956 births Category:2000 deaths Category:Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Category:Turkish people of Kurdish descent Category:Kurdish musicians Category:Kurdish singers