Aynur Doğan

Aynur Doğan (born 1975) is a contemporary Kurdish singer^[1] and musician from Turkey. She was born in Cemisgezek, a small mountain town in Tunceli province in southeastern Turkey. Her family fled to İstanbul in 1992 during the conflict between the Turkish military and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). She studied music and singing at ASM Music School in İstanbul and released her first album in 2002.^[2]
In 2004 she released the album Keçe Kurdan on Hasan Saltık's Kalan Müzik label. The record was banned by a provincial court in Diyarbakır in February 2005 on the grounds that the lyrics contained propaganda for an illegal organization.^[3] The court ruling said the album "incites women to take to the hills and promotes division." The ban was lifted later in 2005.
Aynur was one of 20 İstanbul musicians featured in Fatih Akın's 2005 film Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul. In September and October 2006, she appeared in the Voices of Kurdistan concerts as part of San Francisco World Music Festival^[4]