Kâzım Koyuncu (November 7, 1972 – June 25, 2005) was a Turkish singer-songwriter and activist of Laz origin.
He was the founder and singer of Zuğaşi Berepe ("The Children of the Sea"), a folk rock group founded in 1993.
[1][2] Although strongly denied by Health Minister Recep Akdağ, it is popularly thought that the Chernobyl disaster was the cause of Koyuncu's cancer, a sentiment shared by many locals on Turkey's Black Sea coast.
He fought for nature and was against the construction of a nuclear reactor at Sinop on the northern Black Sea coast of Turkey.
According to a review in Daily Sabah in 2015, "Koyuncu's audience is an interesting combination of leftists and environmentalists, rock music seekers and people of Black Sea origin.