This is an accepted version of this page Aynur Doğan (born 1 March 1975) is a contemporary Kurdish singer[1] and musician from Turkey.

Aynur Doğan was born in Çemişgezek, a small mountain town in Tunceli Province in Turkey and fled to Istanbul in 1992.

[2] She studied saz and türkü singing in an influential music school in Istanbul, the Arif Sağ Müsik.

Meanwhile, she appeared in Fatih Akın's documentary film Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul as a singer and was also part of the documentary film about Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble named "The music of Strangers" directed by Morgan Neville in 2015.

In August 2021 she was granted the Womex award for her resilience to perform in an environment in which she both as a Kurd and an Alevi has often been discriminated.