Rojda Aykoç

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Rojda Aykoç (* 1978 in Kurtalan as Kadriye Şenses ) is a Kurdish singer from Turkey .

Life

Rojda Aykoç was born in 1978 in the village of Tütün near Kurtalan in the province of Siirt , Southeast Anatolia . After attending school, she went to Istanbul to study music in 1991 and began performing with the band Koma Gulên Xerzan , which her brother led. Since 1993 this band has worked with the “Mesopotamian Cultural Center” ( Mezopotamya Kültür Merkezi : MKM). In 1994 the group recorded their first album called Ji Bîr Nabin (The Unforgettable). Her second album, Sonda me (Our Oath), was created in 1997, and the song Helimcan recorded in it made Aykoç's voice popular. In the same year she joined the Koma Asmîn group of eleven women , which she later left. The third album by Koma Gulên Xerzan , Rûkena Min , was released in 2005, and the video clips for the songs Memet kanî and Elo dîno were nominated as best video clips at a video clip festival in Zaxo . In 2006 she left Koma Gulên Xerzan and began her solo career under the name Rojda . Her first solo album, Sebra min , was released in 2006.

Imprisonment for performance of the song "Heval Kamuran"

On February 9, 2010, Rojda Aykoç was arrested in her apartment for "propaganda for an illegal organization" and taken to the Beşiktaş Police Headquarters for singing the Kurdish song "Heval Kamuran" at a festival in Diyarbakır organized by the local city council . Within a few hours of taking an affidavit from Rojda Aykoç on the song, she was released. After testifying in court on February 11, 2010, Rojda Aykoç was tried on March 25, 2010 by the 4th High Criminal Court in Diyarbakır for "disseminating propaganda for an illegal organization" (Art. 7/2 of the Turkish Anti-Terror Law ) sentenced to one year and eight months imprisonment at two different concerts. The sentence pronounced by the court in Diyarbakır, which is for one year each for the performance of the song "Heval Kamuran" at two different concerts of the 9th Culture and Art Festival in Diyarbakır from 27.30. May 2009, was later reduced to ten months imprisonment for each of the two appearances "for good conduct". During their appearances in Diyarbakır, symbols of the banned PKK and of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan are said to have been shown. Rojda Aykoç was sentenced to one year and eight months' imprisonment for disseminating propaganda for the banned PKK at a time when the parliamentary constitutional commission was adopting a legislative proposal that would allow election campaigns in languages ​​traditionally spoken by Turkish citizens every day - including Kurdish This fulfilled one of the main demands of the pro-Kurdish BDP .

Rojda Aykoç is one of 160 artists who were invited to a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on February 20, 2010 to discuss the Kurdish question, but she had already announced in advance that she would not take part and stayed at the meeting remote.

Discography

  • Koma Gulên Xerzan: Ji Bîr Nabin , 1994
  • Koma Gulên Xerzan: Sonda me , 1997
  • Koma Gulên Xerzan: Rûkena Min , 2005
  • Rojda: Sebra Min , October 2006 (Kom Müzik)
  • Mem û Zîn
  • Şahiya Stranan
  • Şevbuhêrka Dengbêja
  • Rojda: Hat , 2011
  • Rojda: Stranên Bijartî , May 2012 (Kom Müzik)
  • Rojda: Kezî , March 2014 (Kom Müzik)
  • Rojda: Shengal , October 2014 (Kom Müzik)

Web links

Commons : Rojda Şenses  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography, own website ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rojdarojda.com
  2. ↑ Biyorgafi ( Memento from August 16, 2015 on WebCite ) (Turkish), rojdarojda.com, posted on February 12, 2012.
  3. ↑ Turkey: The Kurdish singer and musician Rojda has been arrested ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / freemuse.org 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. (English). freemuse.org, undated, accessed September 25, 2013.
  4. ↑ International Freedom of Expression Exchange, March 30, 2010
  5. ↑ Turkey: Kurdish singer Rojda charged with 20 months imprisonment ( Memento from June 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English). freemuse.org, March 29, 2010.
  6. ↑ a b c Rojda: Imprisonment for Performing Kurdish Song ( Memento from September 26, 2013 on WebCite ) (English). Bianet, March 29, 2010, from Bawer Çakır.
  7. ↑ Rojda detained for singing in Kurdish in Turkey ( Memento from August 16, 2015 on WebCite ) (English), hurriyetdailynews.com, February 12, 2010.
  8. ↑ a b Parliamentary commission accepts Kurdish campaigning ( Memento from August 16, 2015 on WebCite ) (English), hurriyetdailynews.com, March 25, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Aykoç, Rojda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Şenses, Kadriye (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Courtyard