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Falay joined the Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band in 1970 and fused traditional Turkish music to jazz with his own band in the1980s.

Sentenced to 6 years, 3 months in prison on “terror” charges and behind bars for two years, Kurdish musician Hozan Canê, also a citizen of Germany, has been released as the court found her prison sentence disproportionate.

In the wake of Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ statement that Uyghur folk poet Heyit died in prison in China, the country has released a video allegedly showing the musician. In the video, Heyit said, “I am now in good health and have never been abused.”

Kurdish musician Yalda Abbasi from Iran, who was previously taken into custody at the İstanbul Atatürk Airport, has been released after giving her deposition.