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Eyse Şan ( Turkish Ayşe Şan; born 1938 in Diyarbakır, † December 18, 1996 in İzmir ) was a Kurdish singer from Turkey. She lived in Turkey, Germany and Iraq.

Eyse Şan in 1938 in a family of Kurdish singer ( Dengbêj ) born. She had her first public appearances in 1958. Their family did not accept this. Then she separated from her husband and her brothers and sang first for a broadcast station in Gaziantep in Turkish. Your livelihood she earned as a seamstress. Later she took in Istanbul numerous songs in the Kurdish language, which were a great commercial success. However, due to an unfavorable contract for them, they benefited from the proceeds of the record hardly.

Their songs were about political and personal issues, such as Derde Hewiyê ( The suffering a second woman) or Qederê Yar ( The fate of a lover ). After her brothers her forbidden all contact with family, she was not allowed to visit her mother before her death. She dedicated her then the song Xerîbim Daye ( I am a single mother ).

After the military coup in Turkey in 1971 her songs were banned and they lived for three years in Munich, where her only daughter Shahnaz died. Then she retired for several years and only came back in 1979 in Iraqi Kurdistan with other Kurdish artists like Mihemed Arif Cizîrî, Îsa Berwari, Gulbihar, Tehsîn Teha and Nesrin Serwan together. After returning to Turkey, she worked in a post office in İzmir. She died on 18 December 1996 from cancer.

On 18 December 2008 it was opened in honor in Diyarbakir between the districts Kayapinar and Bağlar the 7500 -square-foot Eyse - Şan Park. The roof top of a café in the park is decorated with a larger than life portrait photo of Eyse Şan. The events are organized in the park appreciate the Dengbêj tradition in the form of singer and beyond symbolize the Kurdish culture and the Kurdish political opposition as a whole.