Zülfü Livaneli
Turkish musician, writer, screenwriter, and politician. (born 1946) · Turkey · Musicians
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Something wrong?Zülfü Livaneli is a Turkish musician and writer whose political views got him jailed and exiled in the 1970s, then landed him a UNESCO ambassadorship two decades later - which he quit in 2016 to protest Ankara's destruction of Diyarbakir's old quarter.
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Born Ömer Zülfü Livanelioğlu in June 1946, he was imprisoned repeatedly after the 1971 military memorandum and went into exile the following year. He spent over a decade in Stockholm, Paris, Athens, and New York, working alongside Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin, and Peter Ustinov. He came home in 1984. UNESCO made him a Goodwill Ambassador in 1995 for his cultural work and peace advocacy. He later sat in the Grand National Assembly and joined Turkey's delegation to the Council of Europe's parliamentary arm.
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