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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Ferhat Tunç
Person · male · Germany · Ovacık · born 1964 · recording since 1988
Turkish musician of Zaza ancestry (born 1964)
Timeline
9 events▣ Album 7◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1
1960s
1980s
· Debut release
Debut release: Özgürlük İçin
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
1990s
2000s
Biography
English biography231 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1364822620
Biography
Ferhat Tunç Yoslun (born 14 March 1964) is a singer of Kurdish descent.
Ferhat Tunç was born in 1964 in the city of Tunceli in Turkey's eastern province of Tunceli. With twelve years he stood for the first time on stage as a singer. In the late 1970s with sixteen years, he followed his father to Germany. He returned to Turkey in 1985 and began to engage himself in favor of Kurdish rights.
Legal prosecution
In June 2012, he was sentenced to 2 years in prison for terror related charges because during a speech in Dersim on 1 May 2011 Tunç said: “I greet you all in the revolutionary spirit of Deniz Gezmiş, Mahir Çayan and İbrahim Kaypakkaya." All three he greeted are Turkish leftist. On the 20 December 2012 the sentence was turned into a three-year ban to speak about the same theme.
On the 25 September 2018, he was sentenced to 1 year 11 months and 11 days in prison for terror propaganda on behalf on the YPG, PKK and KCK due to his social media posts during the fighting between ISIL and Kurdish fighters in Kobanî in 2014 and 2015.
In March 2019, he declared on Twitter that he was leaving Turkey due to the ongoing legal prosecution against him.
Honor
3 March World Freemusic Award winner by Censorship of music- in London's Royal Institute of British Architects, 25 March 2010
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 10 | 82.3th |
| Studio albums | 8 | 88.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 9 | 85.5th |
| Recording span (years) | 37 | 76.5th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (10 release groups · 8 studio albums)
Albums · 8
1989 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 56:16
1Yasamak Direnmektir5:312Vurgunum Hasretine3:493Avsar Elleri3:264Su Munzurumn Daglarinda3:435Beton Golu4:276Vay Beni Vaylar Beni6:497Meskenim Daglardir3:508Hekimoglu2:589Dersim Dort Dag Icinde2:3810Ismail E Agit2:5111Alev Alev Yandik5:0012Canim Kardesim4:0213Ozgurluk Mahkumlari4:5814Bu Nasil Istanbul2:141992 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 56:12
1Durma Öyle3:312Nice Günün5:493Dili Yar2:554Izmir'in Kavaklari3:075Taht Savrulur3:246Yasanilan3:547Vuruldu5:298Mahpusun Icinde3:089Kinali Kizim2:1910Kanmasinlar2:5811Munzurun Daglarinda2:2012Sabahin Sahibi Var4:2813Mavi Yazma4:2814Vay Delal Delal4:3215Ölümü Kucaklayanlar3:501995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 46:57
1Alir Daglar5:422Gül Vatan2:443Bir Ben Miyim5:344Özlemin Dag Rüzgari4:275Korkarim4:316Brindarim3:577Dersim Yikilmasin3:558Firari Sevdam4:579Ölümde Yakisir Bize5:3510Ates Gibi5:351996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 45:10
1İnfaz4:372Nar Çiçeği3:053Oğul Büyümeli4:514Deli Gönül4:075Kinimizi Dökeriz3:176Bu Sevda Var İken5:377Üç Derdim Var3:168Sesleniş4:379Görüş Gününde3:4310Vay Delal5:2411Türkülü Kusum (enstrümantal)2:361998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 54:30
1Kavgamın Çiçeği4:152Savaşa Hayır4:563Sen Ağlama Yar5:174Can Dostum4:315Yıldızım4:236Halay Bizim3:427Uçurum Şarkısı (Pepug Kuşunun Öyküsü)4:448Gülmene Oğul5:179Ödedim mi Bedelini4:0110Sende mi Heycan4:5111Sevdiyar4:0512Mülayim4:282006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 51:21
1Annem5:042Öykümüzü Söylemezler3:573Bıko5:024On Yedi Cana4:145Çoğalalım3:486Xanım Ninay3:457Ateşte Sınandık6:128Qurbana Çaven Te4:149Dilocan5:0910Neyleyim5:5811Xo Be Xo3:582009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 54:53
1Kızıl Bir Güldün5:152Memleketim4:313Çığlıklar Ülkesi4:194Söz Bitti (şiir)3:045Ölüm Tarlaları4:376Uşene mı5:067Dılo Yaman3:598Hey Vurmayın (Diyarbekir)4:379Oy Gelin4:2110Ayrılık3:4011Ölüm Gelirse4:0612Bıveso (zazaki)3:0213Ere Serdo (zazaki)4:16— · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks
1Sevmek Bir Eylemdir2Alişero3Oğul4İçerden5Sewle6Nerdesin7Aynı Tanrı'nın Çocukları8Yıkasım Gelir9Yangına Düştüm10Dersimli Çocuk11Kevengin Yollarında12Ninnaye
Album · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Özgürlük İçinSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 12 tracksA1Mapusun İçinde Üç Ağaç İncir A2Hasretim Sana A3Görüş Günü A4İnsanları Sevmek A5Çiçek Annem A6Tabiat B1Gece Gelen Konuk B2Sür Umut Tarlalarını B3Senin Emekçin Olaydım B4Nenni Bebek B5Usulca Sokul Yanıma B6Vurgunum Hasretine | Compilation | 1988 |
Single · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | CigeramSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 1 track · 2:411Cigeram2:41 | 16 November 2025 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Ferhat Tunç head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 10 | 82.3th |
| Studio albums | 8 | 88.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 9 | 85.5th |
| Recording span (years) | 37 | 76.5th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ferhat_Tunc2.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f2223388-98b4-40a6-8794-2d207f598550discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f2223388-98b4-40a6-8794-2d207f598550core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78049genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78049seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferhat_Tun%C3%A7biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferhat_Tun%C3%A7
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Turkish musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Vindheim · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q78049 · MusicBrainz: f2223388-98b4-40a6-8794-2d207f598550
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