Ömer Tuğrul İnançer (5 May 1946,

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- 4 September 2022,

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) was a Turkish lawyer,

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ian, and

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of the

Jerrahi The Jerrahi () are a Sufi tariqah (order) derived from the Halveti order. Their founder iHazreti Pîr Muhammad Nureddin al-Jerrahi(1678-1720), who lived in Istanbul and is buried at the site of his tekke in Karagümrük, Istanbul. Nureddin w ...

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. He retired from his duty as the founding general manager of the Istanbul Historical Turkish Music Ensemble affiliated with the

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. İnançer's father was a forest manager at the Forest Department. He was born in 1946 in Bursa, where his father worked. He completed his primary and secondary education in Bursa. He was directed to Western music lessons at Bursa Teachers' Association by a music teacher in secondary school. He continued these courses for three years. Later, he took private lessons from master

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s of Bursa's mosques. He then enrolled in the Bursa Musical Society. İnançer completed his higher education at

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Faculty of Law. When he came to Istanbul, he entered the Üsküdar Music Society and became a student of Emin Ongan. Here he turned to

. After graduation, he worked as a legal consultant until 1991. He was appointed the general director of the Istanbul Historical Turkish Music Ensemble affiliated with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 1991, and a member of the Society for the Protection and Propagation of Turkish Sufi Music. He took part in the musical team at the Shab-i Arus

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ceremonies held in

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every December since 1971. Due to his high level of musical knowledge, he took part as the chief. From 1999 to 2022, he served as the Shaykh of the Jerrahi tariqa based in the Istanbul Jerrahi Center at Karagümrük,

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. Ömer Tuğrul İnançer died on 4 September 2022 at his home in

Üsküdar Üsküdar () is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 35 km2, and its population is 524,452 (2022). It is a large and densely populated district on the Anatolian (Asian) shore of the Bosphorus. It is border ...

, Istanbul.

TV and radio programs

* ''Tuğrul İnançer ile Seyir Defteri'' ( Burç FM) * ''Mesneviden: Mehmet Fatih Çıtlak ile birlikte'' ( Mehtap TV) * ''Ömer Tuğrul İnançer ile Gönül Dünyamız: Saadettin Acar ile birlikte'' (

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)

References

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