Ferhat Tunç

Ferhat Tunç Yoslun (born 14 March 1964) is a singer of Kurdish descent.

He returned to Turkey in 1985 and began to engage himself in favor of Kurdish rights.

[2] In June 2012, he was sentenced to 2 years in prison for terror related charges because during a speech in Dersim on 1 May 2011 Tunç said: “I greet you all in the revolutionary spirit of Deniz Gezmiş, Mahir Çayan and İbrahim Kaypakkaya.” All three he greeted are Turkish leftist.

[4] On the 25 September 2018, he was sentenced to 1 year 11 months and 11 days in prison for terror propaganda on behalf on the YPG, PKK and KCK due to his social media posts during the fighting between ISIL and Kurdish fighters in Kobanî in 2014 and 2015.

[5] In March 2019, he declared on Twitter that he was leaving Turkey due to the ongoing legal prosecution against him.