Arif Şirin, commonly known as Ozan Arif ("Arif the Bard"; June 10, 1949 – February 13, 2019), was a Turkish male folk music artist, poet, composer, songwriter and bağlama performer and teacher foremost known for his songs with lyrics propagating the Idealist cause and Alparslan Türkeş.
Şirin was born in his father's village Yükselen (Hapu) in Alucra district.
[1] Following the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, he moved to Germany where he lived until his return to Turkey in 1991.
[citation needed] He and fellow folk singer İsmail Türüt had been on trial for a song allegedly praising the assassination of Hrant Dink.
[2] Şirin died on February 13, 2019 in the hospital of Faculty of Medicine of Ondokuz Mayıs University of throat cancer.