Rojda Aykoç

Rojda Aykoç (* 1978 in Kurtalan; Birth name: kadriye Şenses ) is a Kurdish singer from Turkey.

Biography

Rojda Aykoç 1978 at Kurtalan in the province of Siirt, Southeastern Anatolia, born in the village Tütün. After her schooling she went in 1991 to study music to Istanbul and started the band Koma Gulen Xerzan act that led to her brother. Since 1993, this band has collaborated with the " Mesopotamian Cultural Center" MKM. In 1994, the group recorded their first album titled Ji Bîr Nabin on ( The Unforgettable ). Her second album, Sonda me ( Oath ), was created in 1997, which is rehearsed song Helimcan made ​​Aykoçs voice popular. In the same year she joined the existing group of eleven women coma Asmin, which she left later. Their third album, Rûkena Min, was released in 2005, the video clips to the songs rehearsed it Memet Kani and Elo Dino were nominated on a Video Clip Festival in Zakho as the best video clips. In 2006, she left Koma Gulen Xerzan and began her solo career under the name Rojda. Her first solo album Sebra min appeared in 2006.

Imprisonment for performance of the song " Heval Kamuran "

On 9 February 2010 Rojda Aykoç was arrested at her home of "propaganda for an illegal organization" and taken to police headquarters Beşiktaş because she had sung the Kurdish song " Heval Kamuran " at a festival in Diyarbakir, which was organized by the local city council. Within a few hours, in which a sworn statement Rojda Aykoçs was added to the song, she was set free again. After she had testified in court on 11 February 2010, Rojda Aykoç was on 25 March 2010 of 4 High Criminal Court in Diyarbakır for "spreading propaganda for an illegal organization" (Article 7/2 of the Turkish Anti - Terror Law ) sentenced to two different concerts to imprisonment of one year and eight months. The pronounced by the court in Diyarbakir penalties that. One-year terms for the presentation of the song " Heval Kamuran " at two different concerts of the 9th Culture and Art Festival in Diyarbakir on 27 -30 May was 2009, was later toned down " for good behavior " on ten months ' imprisonment for each of the two performances. During her appearances in Diyarbakir said to have been shown from the public symbols of the banned PKK and PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Rojda Aykoç one of the 160 artists who were invited to a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 20 February 2010 in order to discuss the Kurdish question, but she had announced in advance not to participate.

Discography

  • Ji Bîr Nabin, coma Xerzan, 1994
  • Sonda me, 1997
  • Rûkena Min, 2005
  • Sebra Min, 2006
  • Mem û Zin
  • Şahiya Stranan
  • Şevbuhêrka Dengbêja
  • Hat, 2011
Kurdish people Siirt Province
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