Aynur Doğan is a contemporary Kurdish

Kurdish people

The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 singer and musician from Turkey

Turkey

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. She was born in Çemişgezek

Çemisgezek

Çemişgezek is a small city and its surrounding district in Tunceli Province of Turkey. The city has a population of 2,819, while whole district has a population of 7.929. The mayor is Metin Levent Yıldız . Most of the people are Sunni, but there is also a Alevi community. Çemişgezek has great...

, a small mountain town in Tunceli Province

Tunceli Province

The Tunceli Province is a province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The province was named Dersim Province and was changed to Tunceli Province on January 4, 1936. with the "Law on Administration of the Tunceli Province" , no...

 in southeastern Turkey

Turkey

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. Her family fled to İstanbul

Istanbul

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 in 1992 during the conflict between the Turkish military and the Kurdistan Workers Party

Kurdistan Workers Party

The Kurdistan Workers' Party , commonly known as PKK, also known as KGK and formerly known as KADEK or KONGRA-GEL , is a Kurdish organization which has since 1984 been fighting an armed struggle against the Turkish state for an autonomous Kurdistan and greater cultural and political rights...

 (PKK). She studied music and singing at ASM Music School in İstanbul and released her first album in 2002.

In 2004 she released the album Keçe Kurdan on Hasan Saltık

Hasan Saltik

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's Kalan Müzik

Kalan Müzik

Kalan Müzik or Kalan Music for the West is a Turkish independent record label company based in Istanbul. It was founded in 1991 by Hasan Saltık. It specializes in releasing Saltık's recordings of classical and traditional ethnic and folk music from Turkey and the surrounding region. It is sometimes...

 label. The record was banned by a provincial court in Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır

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 in February 2005 on the grounds that the lyrics contained propaganda for an illegal organization. The court ruling said the album "incites women to take to the hills and promotes division." The ban was lifted later in 2005.

Albums

1. Sayir, 2002.
2. Keçe Kurdan, 2004.
3. Bahar, with Kardeş Türküler
   Kardes Türküler
   Kardeş Türküler was conceived in 1993 as a series of concerts given by the music branch of the Folklore Club at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey....
   
   , 2005.
4. Miraz, with Mikail Aslan, 2005.
5. Nûpel, 2005.
6. Güldünya Şarkıları, 2008.