Esin Afşar (née Sinanoğlu; 1 January 1936[1] – 14 November 2011) was a Turkish singer and stage actress.
But after collaborating with Ruhi Su, she included Turkish folk music (türkü) to her repertoire.
[1] Although she briefly returned to concerts and album recordings, Afşar died on 14 November 2011 in a hospital in Istanbul, where she was taken due to leukemia about three weeks earlier.
[1][4][7][8] Although her repertoire included a wide collection of various melodies of different tastes, her fame mainly stems from Turkish folklore.
[9] She was sent to Hungary by İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, the minister of Foreign Affairs as an official representative of Turkish culture.
[10] Esin Afşar was strictly against a new style of music in Turkey emerged after the 1970s, named Arabesque.