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Ahmet Kaya
2000Nov, 16

Ahmet Kaya

Ahmet Kaya, Turkish-French singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
Ahmet Kaya (28 October 1957 – 16 November 2000) was a Turkish-Kurdish folk singer. Kaya was persecuted by the Turkish nationalist celebrities and authorities. Following, Kaya left Turkey into Exile in France where he shortly after died of a heart attack.When he was granted the Musician of the Year Award in February 1999 during a controversial Award ceremony at which after he declared to want to record a song in Kurdish.

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  • 14Jan

    Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina

    A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
  • 3Apr

    United States antitrust law

    United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
  • 2May

    Global Positioning System

    President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
  • 22May

    Sri Lankan Tamil people

    In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.
  • 26Nov

    United States presidential election, 2000

    George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.