For this, he was indicted on September 19, 1988. In 1988, he was asked by businessman Mehmet Yilmaz at a cultural festival in Usak to sing a Kurdish folk song, but refused, saying “I am a Kurd, but the laws ban me for singing in Kurdish”. In the 1980s the Turkish government had banned the use of Kurdish at a concert in Sweden in December 1986, he had sung two folk songs in Kurdish and was thus prosecuted for separatist propaganda, but found not guilty in 1987. He had adopted Tatlıses (sweet-voiced) as a stage name. He sold tapes and sang at weddings and in restaurants until a producer discovered him in 1976. He lost his father during childhood, and did not attend high school. Regarding his ethnicity, he said “My father was a Turk and my mother was a Kurd and I am ethnically a Turk.” He also has partial Arab ancestry. Tatlıses was born in Siverek, Şanlıurfa, Turkey. He owes his life to Professor Majid Samii Personal life On Thursday April 7, Tatlıses left Acıbadem Hospital with a police escort and travelled to Atatürk International Airport, where he boarded the Ministry of Health’s Hawker 900XP air ambulance for Germany, to receive intensive rehabilitation at the Murnau Trauma Clinic. The police in Turkey arrested around 20 people involved in the attack. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited him and also announced that he was recovering well. After a week, the doctors announced that he was recovering well. He regained consciousness five days later. He underwent a four-hour operation to have the bullet removed, after which he was in stable condition. He was taken to the Acıbadem Hospital in Istanbul for emergency treatment. The perpetrators carried Kalashnikov rifles and escaped in a black car. Çakıcı was also hit in the neck, but survived the attack. As they entered their vehicle, Tatlises was hit with a bullet that entered the back of his skull and exited through the front. At 00:30 local time, he and his spokeswoman Buket Çakıcı were shot at by unknown assailants after leaving the offices of the private Turkish channel Beyaz TV following his weekly television show. On 14 March 2011, he was attacked and seriously wounded in the head. He was shot in the leg in 1990 and survived an assassination attempt in 1998.
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