Mayor of Turkey’s Diyarbakir calls for fulfillment of famous Armenian ashugh Aram Tigran’s wish

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The female mayor of Diyarbakir, Turkey, Serra Bucak, has once again called on Turkish authorities to allow the reburial of Aram Tigran’s body in Diyarbakir on the 17th anniversary of the death of the famous Armenian ashough.

Bucak stated that Aram Tigran’s last wish should be fulfilled and he should be reburied with great respect and honor in Diyarbakir, according to the Kurdish website Malabadihaber.

The Armenian musician, considered the “nightingale” of the Middle East, who was born in 1934 in the Syrian city of Qamishli, had dedicated himself to music since the age of 20, singing in Armenian, Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Greek, and Assyrian. Also Aram Tigran translated a number of Armenian folk songs, singing them in Kurdish and vice versa.

Aram Tigran’s dream of being buried in Diyarbakir was not fulfilled, as the Turkish authorities did not allow the Armenian musician to be buried in the Armenian cemetery of Diyarbakir. Nevertheless, Aram Tigran’s symbolic burial took place in the Armenian cemetery of Diyarbakir, and the soil for the grave already dug for him was taken by the then mayor of Diyarbakir, Osman Baydemir, to Brussels, where the famous Armenian musician is buried.