Uğur Işılak

Işılak during his concert in Akşehir, Konya.

Uğur Işılak (born 15 November 1971, Neviges, Germany) is a Turkish musician, composer and politician.

With the general elections in Turkey, which was held on 7 June 2015, he became a member of 25th term of the Turkish Parliament for Istanbul Province of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party).^[1]

Early life and education

Işılak was born on 15 November 1971 in Neviges, Germany to Ahmet Işılak and his wife Arife. He is originally from Ankara's Şereflikoçhisar district. Işılak became involved with music at a young age. After completing his primary, secondary and high school education in Germany, his family moved to Istanbul, largest city in Turkey, in 1983. He graduated from Konya Selçuk University’s Literature Faculty. Işılak able to speak fluent German and semi-fluent English.^[2]

Musical career

Işılak has begun to his musical career as a professional musician since 1987. He has gone in for more than a thousand cultural and art activities in Turkey, Europe, America, Australia and Central Asia for almost 30 years. He made more than 20 records (albums). Among these, there are very important and special albums which were compiled and composed from important Turkish poets like Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman ( Süleyman the Magnificent) and Yavuz Sultan Selim. These poets (which includes Ottoman Empires) are in Turkey’s 1000 years literature history.He was granted many awards for his cultural studies. He was granted many awards for his cultural studies. He made cultural and art programs for many national channels particularly in TRT, ATV and 360TV. He is still making these programs.^[3]

In addition to these; he prepared Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) election songs. Which are; "Haydi Anadolu" (Come on Anatolia) in 2002, "Herşey Türkiye İçin" (Turkey for everything) in 2008, "İnandık Hakka" (We believe in God) and " Dombra" in 2014.^[4]

Political life

After preparing Justice and Development Party’s election songs, He was elected as an AK Party Member of Parliament at the June 2015 general election.

Albums

• Duy Sesimi (1996)
• Dönen Alçak Olsun (1998)
• Söyleyeceklerim Var (2000)
• Yıldırım Gibi (2001)
• Haydi Anadolu(Single) (2002)
• Ben Ağlarsam Kıyamet Kopar (2002)
• Kalabalık Yalnızlara & Ozanca (2004)
• Kalabalık Yalnızlara (2005)
• Sil Baştan (2006)
• Aşkın Cenazesi Var (2007)
• Sizin Gibi Değilim (2008)
• Artık Geç Oldu (2009)
• Miras 1 (2011)
• Üstad (2012)
• Makam-ı Sultan (2013)
• Akifçe (2014)
• 2 CD 2 Kelam (2015)

References

External links

• Resmî site