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Aşık Mahzuni Şerif (born in Berçenek village of Afşin, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey in 17 November 1940 — 17 May 2002), also known as Mahsuni Şerif, was a Turkish folk musician, ashik, composer, poet, and author. He became one of Turkey's best-known musical interpreters, and brought strong intellectual and social elements into Turkish folk music and folk poetry. He died on 17 May 2002 in Porz, Köln, Germany, four days after his arrival for medical care about his heart problems. The word Aşık preceding his name is a title used to indicate his position as a respected musician, but also indicates his...

Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu (1894–1973), usually known as just Aşık Veysel, was a Turkish alevi minstrel and highly regarded poet of Turkish folk literature. He was born on the 25th October 1894 in the Sivrialan village of the Şarkışla district, Sivas. He was an ashik, a poet, songwriter, and a bağlama and saz virtuoso, the best-known representative of the Anatolian ashik tradition in the twentieth century. He was blind for most of his lifetime. His songs are usually sad tunes, often talking about the inevitability of death. He died on the 21st March 1973. .