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Zülfü Livaneli

Ömer Zülfü Livanelioğlu (born 20 June 1946), known as Zülfü Livaneli, is a Turkish musician, author, poet, and politician.

Livaneli was imprisoned several times during the 1971 Turkish military memorandum because of his political views, leading to his exile from Turkey in 1972. He has lived in Stockholm, Paris, Athens, and New York, where he met and collaborated with artists and intellectuals such as Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin, and Peter Ustinov. Livaneli returned to Turkey in 1984.

In 1995, UNESCO appointed him as a Goodwill Ambassador to UNESCO in recognition of his cultural works, political activities, and contributions to world peace. He resigned from this position in 2016 to protest the Turkish State's damage to the historic Kurdish Old Town of Diyarbakir. He served in the Grand National Assembly and the Council of Europe. Provided by Wikipedia