His generation's greatest singer

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Mideast Mourns for Shot Turkish Singer Tatlises - Newsweek
Newsweek calls him Mid-East's Sinatra.

The 58-year-old Kurdish singer, who has millions of fans in Turkey, Greece and the Middle East, and his spokeswoman, Buket Çakıcı, were attacked in İstanbul in a drive-by shooting. Tatlıses and Çakıcı survived the incident. Sixteen suspects, including Abdullah Uçmak, who is accused of soliciting the hitman who nearly killed Tatlıses, were detained last week as part of the investigation into the shooting.
Footage from security cameras at the Atlantis Shopping Mall show Uçmak, accused of having arranged the shooting, and the driver of the car used in the attack, Yunus Ayık, and the alleged hitman, Ersin Altun, strolling around the mall. The footage is from two weeks before the attack, investigators said.
Uçmak, who had threatened Tatlıses in the past, admitted in his testimony that there was a degree of hostility between him and the singer but denied having any role in the attack. Investigators also found e-mails and phone numbers on Uçmak's home computer that are connected to a lawyer who is suspected of having ties to the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been issuing death threats against Kurdish writers and artists who appear to be on good terms with the AK Party government.

Turkish PM visits singer Tatl?ses in hospital | Politics | World Bulletin

Photos show Tatlıses shooter at PKK camp
Photos show Tatlıses shooter at PKK camp

He was to run as Parliamentarian in June 12th election from the AKP as he has failed to get into Parliament as an Independent in last election.

He is really a Dinosaur of Entertainment in this region (Music + Movie Actor).
Doctors say, he will have permanent damage although not the speaking-part of the brain was hit.

 

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Police foil 2nd murder attempt in Hospital.
2nd terrorist comes from N.Iraq.