Ergüder Yoldaş

Ergüder Yoldaş ( June 6, 1939 in Izmir - January 25, 2016 there ) was a Turkish musician and composer.

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In 1963 Yoldaş founded the pop group "Halikarnas Altılısı". This brought out the album "Dertli Kaval". Yoldaş is the composer of the popular Turkish pop song “Sultan-ı Yegâh”. It was released in 1982 on the LP of the same name, a setting of a poem by his friend Attila İlhan . The interpreter was his second wife Nur Yoldaş. After this success, Yoldaş composed the album "Elde Var Hüzün" in 1983, which was less successful. Yoldaş later composed an album for Esin Afşar on the subject of Mevlana and Yunus Emre .

Life

Yoldas's father was a teacher. When he ran as a candidate for the Democrat Parti in Aydın in 1948 , he had to give up the position for political reasons and moved to Izmir. Yoldaş attended the İzmir İnönü Lisesi high school there. He graduated from the Ankara State Conservatory in 1958, married that year and then worked a. a. at the Avni Dilligil Tiyatrosu. The tour bus crashed during a tour. Yoldaş was seriously injured and was in a coma for several weeks. He then worked a. a. as the conductor of the orchestra of the İstanbul Festivali Yoldaş made several trips and worked for example in 1970 as a pianist in Kinshasa for six months . This was followed by a divorce and a new marriage to the singer Nur Yoldaş in 1976.

After two failed marriages and health problems, Yoldaş retired in 1991. He lived first on Büyükada , then in Izmir with siblings and later with a son in Istanbul. He returned to Büyükada and lived there in complete seclusion, first in a house that the mayor Recep Koç assigned to him, and then in Ayla Algans' summer hut . From 1994 Yoldaş lived on the landfill. Uğur Dündar met him there after a long seclusion and reported about him on his television program. His sister recognized her neglected brother and tried unsuccessfully to convince him to give up this life. From then on she had meals fetched for him at the table d'hôte . Yoldaş later came into the spotlight of the tabloids. Headlines like "Robinson Without a Friday" appeared. The reporting led to a "rescue operation" being initiated. The current occasion was a fire near his accommodation. On January 20, 1995, Yoldaş was forcibly committed to the Bakırköy Ruh ve Sinir Hastalıkları Hastanesi mental hospital with a large-scale helicopter mission. Newspapers and television reported extensively about this action. Ümit Bayazoğlu writes that the attending doctor dismissed Yoldaş after an examination because there was no problem requiring treatment and that Yoldaş consciously chose this form of life. Yoldaş himself reported in retrospect that he had been locked up there for six to six and a half months.

Yoldaş did not return to Büyükada afterwards, but lived with his sister and his nephews and nieces. Yoldaş had two children from her first marriage and one child from her second marriage. The media reported serious health problems in early 2015. Ergüder Yoldaş died on January 25, 2016 in a hospital in Izmir.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nokta magazine, February 14, 1993; "Çöplükteki mücevher: Ergüder Yoldaş"
2. ↑ Ümit Bayazoğlu: Uzun, İnce Yolcular . 42 portre. Istanbul 2014, p. 329
3. ↑ Bir daha adaya dönmem ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Report and interview in Aksiyon magazine in 2007.  
4. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20160924022429/http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/erguder-yoldas-hayatini-kaybetti-40044737

Discography

• Discography of Ergüder Yoldaş (Homepage of Nur Yoldaş)