Uğur Işılak (born 15 November 1971) is a Turkish musician, composer and politician. At the 7 June 2015 general elections in Turkey, he became a member of the 25th term of the Turkish Parliament for

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representing the ruling

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Early life and education

Işılak was born on 15 November 1971 in

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to Ahmet Işılak and his wife Arife. He is originally from Ankara's

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district. Işılak became involved with music at a young age. After completing his primary, secondary and high school education in Germany, his family moved to

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, the largest city in

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, in 1983. He graduated from Konya Selçuk University's Literature Faculty. Işılak speaks fluent German and semi-fluent English.

Musical career

Işılak began his career as a professional musician in 1987. He has gone in for more than a thousand cultural and art activities in Turkey, Europe, America, Australia and Central Asia for almost 30 years. He made more than 20 records (albums). Among these, are important albums which were compiled and composed from important Turkish poets like

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, 24,

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He is still making these programs. In addition to these, he prepared the

's election songs: "Haydi Anadolu" (''Come on Anatolia'') in 2002, "Herşey Türkiye İçin" (''Turkey for Everything'') in 2008, "İnandık Hakka" (''We believe in God'') and "Dombra" in 2014.

Political life

After preparing AK Party's election songs, He was elected as an AK Party Member of Parliament at the June 2015 general election.

Albums

* Duy Sesimi (1996) * Dönen Alçak Olsun (1998) * Söyleyeceklerim Var (2000) * Yıldırım Gibi (2001) * Haydi Anadolu(Single) (2002) * Ben Ağlarsam Kıyamet Kopar (2002) * Kalabalık Yalnızlara & Ozanca (2004) * Kalabalık Yalnızlara (2005) * Sil Baştan (2006) * Aşkın Cenazesi Var (2007) * Sizin Gibi Değilim (2008) * Artık Geç Oldu (2009) * Miras 1 (2011) * Üstad (2012) * Makam-ı Sultan (2013) * Akifçe (2014) * 2 CD 2 Kelam (2015) * (with

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) (2021)

References

External links

Resmî site
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