Any of his fans here?

i am not a real fan who is mad about him but i like some of his songs ...and i must say that he is great ...he is so charming and the way he moves ,his dance is very sexy...he is really hot
of course i love "dudu" and one very special song for me is inci tanem ...coz of the lyrics (there is something about it)...but the music of most of his others sogns is fantastic ....

I also like Tarkan's songs.. but I'm not a fan. do u like Sertab Erener? I started to study turkish because of her. I'm her fan no.1

I adore her english songs ..."Every way that i can" and"Here I am"...i know few of her turkish songs but definetely I dont like "One more cup of coffe"...it is really strange for me..it sounds like that...but sertab is cooooooL !

I adore all Sertab songs.. (except 'Kera'). 'One more cup of coffee' is great too can't wait for her new turkish album. Apart from Sertab I also like very much Burcu Güneş, Deniz Arcak, Şebnem Ferah, Asya..

I wonder what other Turkish singers(groups) are popular among Turkish youth? Please share your "likes"!

i like some of tarkan songs too
but especialy

( kralma)
i never heard sensetive song like kralma it is realy strange very nice

who i am fan of realy much is ibrahim tatlises
i learn turkish for him
and to understand him i mean his songs all of them i like all his movies too

I'm a Tarkan's fan (but not really number 1). I even could sung his songs whithout having learned turkish at all. Later, when I begun studying turkish, I'm using his songs to get a better knowledge of turkish (expressions, vocabulary, etc.). It's actually learning a language using songs, don't you think?

Sorry for the mistakes in english, I'm very tired to write perfectly.

I think it is a good idea to use song lyrics to help you learn Turkish. Lyrics are probably the easiest things to remember - if you like the songs

I also love to listen Tarkan and... Ibrahim Tatlises, and I become happy to see here another who likes Ibrahim songs.

Do you like Kayahan? I also like his music.

It's a good idea to use songs in order to learn, and in other courses of different languages it's used, and, due to that most people starts learning a language in order to understand the songs of some loved artist, it would be fun,
but, it can be complicated for beginners. The songs language is de poetry language, and, usually, it's hard to understand, because it uses idioms, changes the words order...etc, and some songs could be usefull, but, the mostly part could be difficult to beginners.

I realized it today, translating a tale (tales are another option); I was used to translate songs, and, that was very difficult to me, and, todey, with that tale I realised that Turkish grammar, specially sintax, isn't as difficult as I thought.

Selam Aleyküm

Selam to all
i advice u all to lestin to sezen aksu
if you want to know more about her just go there

http://www.sezen-aksu.com/
love you all
ahmed

hi xesc,

i read ur post about songs
do u know somethimg maybe it is true that songs ate difficult sometims but dont u realize that songs keep in ones mind and it cant be forgetted
especiely if u like a singer..
for me do u know what happen? i love ibrahim's songs too much thats afact but when i learn something new i rmember the new word in one of ibrahim song so i dont forget it.

Yes, it's true, and thus songs are used in language courses; myself i started translating Baris Manço songs, and also Tarkan and Ibrahim. Because of it, the mostly part of vocabulary that I know is ask, kalb, sevmek, unutmak...etc hehehhe.

If you love the artist the songs are useful, and a very beautyful manner to learn, I only wanted to tell these, if you haven't the necessary things, as a good dictionary, grammar, and guides about street uses of the words and idioms, and the culture, sometimes the songs could be confusing.

But, if you have the necessary methods, you do learn more things that only the grammar. Do you know "Ne faydasi var?", to understand it completely, it's necessary to know the stories about Leyla and Mecnun and Kerem, and, i love very much it, because I don't only want to learn a language, I wanna learn a culture.

But, for some beginners, it could confusing, and it's better to know firstly the basics; i.e., the use of -yom instead of -yorum...in some songs (i.e. Neset Ertas) that form is used, and would be preferable to know completely the form -yorum and, after, to know -yom.

Selam!

i see yes u r right i always say that the most interested thing in language is not words only but the new things u know about people who u r learning there languages but about macnun leyla i hadn't a trouble because arab people know the same story.

Selam Alyaa; http://www.idobay.com/index.html it's a web about Ibrahim Tatlises with songs, pictures and films (but i can't see the films), can be interesting

heyyyyyyy everyone... i like tarkan also but not a fan .. OFCOURSE he is sexy ohhh my god... hehehe...But most of all i like Gulben Ergen if anyone know her.. she is the best and ALSO IBRAHIM TATLISES, who doesn't like his songs??

i know her
ofcourse gulben ergen who forget
selam yalnizlik ben geldim, i dont remeber the name but most of her songs r nice also
kut kut atiyor kalbim/

and did u see her latest song;git??

yes I also like Gulben.. (although some time ago i thought "Gulben" & "Gulsen" were the same person lol now i know they arent.. i love "kandiramazsin beni" & "uçacaksin"!!

wht about Burcu Günes? u like her?

I also love Tarkan. I have heard from many of my turkish friends that he is gay. What do you think? What do you know? What is the general Turkish view of homosexuality. I have a gay son - I am proud of him. He has a hard life even in England. What do my turkish friends think of this? I am happy to hear good arguments about this, but nothing insulting please

There are gays in Turkey- I've met one. I met him in Poland, he came to university for a scholarschip and he was a boyfriend of my gay-friend.
They have very hard life there, because most Turks don't like or even hate homosexuals. It's impossible to say in public that you are a gay.
My turkish friend told me taht he even had a girlfriend in Turkey so as not to be suspected of being homosexual. Isn't it horrible?
And also most of homosexual Turks marry with women because they have no choice- they have to make a family, because family and society insists on.

hehe pls dont tell me that being gay is normal.. really this is funny well remind the living aims that were learnt in biology... if sth is normal the other ways are abnormal so human beings are created for being couple couple means man-woman so the others are as a result of mentally illness if you ask me... ofcourse its non of my business but... isnt it awfull? yuckkk! ...

yes I think it IS normal and I know some gays they are my real friend and believe me they are normal people like me and you

So maybe if I like dark hair men and some other girl likes blondes I should think its awful and she isn't normal?
Oh please....

I don't know what you are tought on biology lessons but if your teacher tells you that gays are abnormal people, he must be one of those totally intolerant Turks are don' like (speaking gently).

One of my closest frds at the uni was gay and I was perfectly fine about that. I don't understand why people (usually other men) have a problem about it. I don't mind people having any kind of sexual orientation as long as they dont make my life difficult. Frankly speaking, i've had more problems with "straight" guys than with gay ones. Thus, do I mind homosexuals? No. I definitely don't!

Have you ever noticed how it's usually men and not women that object to gay people? If they are honest, it's not 'gay' they object to, it's homosexuals they object to.... lesbians are a completely different thing...I think this may be something to do with double standards again??

I've heard a theory that those men who are fierce opponents of gay men are so for the fear of being claimed gay themselves or are not totally sure of their own sexuality
Yes, it always surprises me that much as (some) men abhore male gays, they have nothing against lesbians. Perhaps, it has something to do with male fantasies of having sex with more than one women...

Tarkan is fantastic! I also like Mustafa Sandal, Gokhan Ozen, Sertab Erener, Yildiz Tilbe, Sezen Aksu, Ibrahim Tatlises and Ismail YK. There are so many more, but all Turkish music is great I think.

I don't like Tarkan's songs much but I started learning turkish from translating his songs' lyrics.
It turns out very useful when I started learning turkish for real.

im a real fan of tarkan. he is turkeys popstar.

I also like Tarkan very much. It does help a lot to learn the lyrics
Especially for pronounciation.

hehe!!! being Gay is normal... this is becoz of unbalanced hormonal reactions... so could it be normal an unbalanced thing?... well about biology lessons nope my teacher was really a tolerent person.. and i can prove you that she is more tolerant that europanean society.... and its a desease that is caused by not satisfaction... and unfortunately you didnt get the meaning we are not talking about ppls personality... we are talking about the homosexualy action... its really disgusting...
lets return to living needs in biology; feeding, exhaustion, reproduction, breath(i forgot its term) bla bla... can two man do reproduct?.. no so class is over...
for your homework... search for couple or uncoupled type of reproduction ...

hehe!!! being Gay is normal... this is becoz of unbalanced hormonal reactions... so could it be normal an unbalanced thing?... well about biology lessons nope my teacher was really a tolerent person.. and i can prove you that she is more tolerant that europanean society.... and its a desease that is caused by not satisfaction... and unfortunately you didnt get the meaning we are not talking about ppls personality... we are talking about the homosexualy action... its really disgusting...
lets return to living needs in biology; feeding, exhaustion, reproduction, breath(i forgot its term) bla bla... can two man do reproduct?.. no so class is over...
for your homework... search for couple or uncoupled type of reproduction ...

Well i guess these views come from the idea that sex and partnership is only for reproducing - Well i think we have seen enough posts on these forums to understand that it is not only for reproduction! What about love and partnership? Can't two people want to be together and support and love each other without reproducing? of course they can. Even straight (heterosexual) people have sex for fun or relationships that are platonic.

I know enough about boys to know that for them most sex is definitely NOT about reproduction! - and if it were, why would people use contraception? Or maybe you think contraception is also wrong or that you should only have sex when you want to have a baby? That old reproduction argument is dead in the water now.

Anyway, i don't think anyone thought you were talking about anyone 'personally' so don't worry, you are entitled to your views of course.

and the word that you couldn't remember was 'breathing'

Come on Lyndie,which gay thinks the way u think?Supporting eachother with love and friendship?Maybe just one in the world.We have to find it...They all think another things...

I'm not saying that gay people don't have sex. of course they do.

But my point is, that you can only argue against homosexuality by using the 'its not normal because sex is for reproduction' idea, if you can truly say that you believe that its normal for people (any people) only have sex to reproduce - and it would be very difficult to argue this!

But as to love and support and friendship these are the basis of a relationship PLUS sex.

Only in societies that prohibit the idea of same sex partnerships do gay people only seek to get together for sex. If they live in a country where they can live openly together like a family, then sex is not the only thing they seek.

I actually know two male policemen who live together like a family and they have adopted 2 children and live happily like a 'normal' family.

heheh nope it was "respiration"... i just gave that reproducing to teach you that... man and woman... why we all dont created in one way then homo(latin word) is normal? this is becoz of all bullshits of frued and his psycho thoughts.. i was getting my stomach out when i was reading him this is becoz of using ur freedom.. in i can do whatever i want.. no.. your freedom ends when you hurt my eye touch also in a night program.. we decided that there is man and woman no other sex i actually dont wanna talk about them much.. they can f.ck whoever they want in their home.. but i dont want them come to my face.. i want a right.. i am a gay i am a gay.. cmon how you feel when your son or bf or husband or dad come with i am a gay sentence ) this is really absurd

well actually, I alread did say that one of my sons IS gay! and how I feel about is that i'm sorry for him that the world is full of bigots who don't approve of him because they don't understand him.

I am proud of him. He is a good person. Honest, decent, hardworking and kind. I love him and want him to be happy even if that means that I get another 'son' instead of a 'daughter' when he finds a partner and I won't have any grandchildren from him.

i would like meet with your son... be friend with him but JUST friends.. i am totally heterosexual i am not with their personality.. they are just like a politicians... they show it like the end of the world.. i actually have more problems than giving gays right

i actually just have to say some... but really its not estetic.

It is very nice of you to say this Sui Generis. You would like him. He has lots and lots of friends. Boys and girls. The boys who are his friends are quite 'normal' (lololo) and they like him because he is a very good friend to have. They are not afraid of him. Can a boy have a friend who is a girl or woman but doesn't want to have sex with her? of course. It is just the same.

just call me Sui well actually not the same.. a boy can have really close friends we have a proverb or sth liek that " yedigimiz ictigimiz bir bogazdan gider" and i have some friends like that man or girl.. but Laticia Casta or Natalie Portman always atracts a boy if a boy say doesnt atract me there is some problem you know everything has to be themselves... whats the reason to find a way after lines(not in all occasions- i also like to play on limited regions) ok! i think i started to talk nosense... so i shut up!

Its ok - what does yedigimiz ictigimiz bir bogazdan gider" mean please.

it just tells how close they are... really close... if you want one by one translation.. the think we eat and drink pass in on throat... we have one more "aramızdan su sızmaz" again one by one translation.. no water goes between us... anyone can be with a man or a woman like that.. i am not saying man always has to have sex with a woman... but this kinda things are result of deformation in thoughst in culture or family... oh damn god again we came to capitalism and imperialist things... you know when there is high or high sloped curves in your graph you always lost sth... this is how we explain i think.. when culture jumps in its graph.. it gives lost... homosexualizm is one of this.. actaully we can say the psycho style of thoughts or understandings.. and the way using it... just thats it.. just like using your mind to make atomic bomb... bla bla... should i be a politic?

How typical turkish thinking-two people's relationship just so as to make children so sad

What is wrong with you I don't understand?
I have a homosexual friend. He's biggest dream is to find The One and get marry.
It has nothing in common with capitalism and imperialism I don't understand what is your problem??

heeey dont shoot.. just calm down... its ofcourse with them... just look around.. who is trying to be itself... we are undercontrol of a power but i dont understand what it is... pfff am i insane.. i dont think so.. just open your eyes(a great song of Guano Apes )... there is no globalisation ok.. i cant accept it... you are slavic i am Turk the other is arab.. or british.. i dont say we have to fight that i cant close my eyes when my cultural things goes down... or they start to make shit.. and in my world there is woman and man... even gay is a man for me unless he kisses a man infront of me...

ok but how is it connetcted with your culture? it has nothing to do with that. They are just people like you and me
Sorry i say that, but I don't ask you what you like in your bedroom as I don't ask my friends or I don't discriminate anyone because he's or she's kissing the blonde whilst I don't like blondes...
No war, I just say my opinion and still don't understand how is it connnected to turkish culture...

Tarkan is a rare artist. I hope he is protected from the evil eye of jealousy and other negativeity. He manages to combine classic Turkish singing in a unique way that communicates with contemporary society.

He has the best of the Turkish man qualities, that is masculine, but unafraid of showing affection. He has the playful manner that reminds me of a kitten.

May Allah protect Tarkan and keep him healthy in all ways. May he mature into an even better artist. We are lucky to be able to enjoy such an artist.

He is a good singer and the ones who criticize him are just envious of his talent , beauty and shinning style!!
My favorite songs by him are

"Unut Beni"
" Salina Salina"
"Hup"
"Gulumse Kaderine"
" Love speaks"
" Simarik "
"Olurum Sana"
" Aman Aman"
" Kuzu Kuzu"
" Bounce"
" Tas " among others
But my favorite male turkish singers are
Baris Manco , Yasar , Mustafa Sandal & Dogus

it is interesting to note that there are versions of "şımarık" in different languages

i have only 1
arabic kiss

Apparently he only charges around £50,000 to entertain you on News Years Eve, as opposed to George Micheal who charged £1.5m to enterain a Russian billionaire on New Years Eve (and then lost a lot of his equipment in a fire later). It obviously pays to be a good singer.........

maybe i could also command this fee..although people would pay me more to stop singing..heck i could make a bomb..not a literal one people..i mean a lot of money

im crazy over tarkan he is great i got come closer finally and its well good. i love all his music. he is just sooo good i love dudu its great and the video is yummy

im crazy over tarkan he is great i got come closer finally and its well good. i love all his music. he is just sooo good i love dudu its great and the video is yummy

im crazy over tarkan he is great i got come closer finally and its well good. i love all his music. he is just sooo good i love dudu its great and the video is yummy

I think we get the message Heidi!!!

Merhaba... Merhaba...

I really like Tarkan i think he's the one that attract me to know Turkiye and i wish him all luck and may allah (god) bless every step and move he do it.. not because of his songs and video clips (although it's the best) ,,, but because he just enter hearts so quickly and ,, i like they way he speaks and express his self

I am not a turkish but i love Tarkan. I even sent money and requested my turkish friend to buy me his poster and sent to me coz Tarkan is not yet known and the poster is not yet also available in my country. Maybe im the first fan of Tarkan here. Anyway, i have collections of his songs especially his album Come Closer and i even got the lyrics so i could sing with him. I love watching his music video Bounce. Take note: i always visit his website, Tarkan.com and sign in his guestbook there.

WOW! talk about obsession!

Ok I like some of his songs, but he isn't exactly my favourite singer.

Wow Tarkan is very hot singer,his voice came from heaven,don't you think guys I love him so much .

can someone translate this song of tarkans please i really ike it but have no idea what he is singing about!

sorma kalbim

Sen önce, tani bil kendini
Saril da kalbine
Sonra beni sev dedi
Hepimiz yanliziz bu yolda
Hayat denilen oyunda
Önce seni sonra beni bul dedi

Kirilma,
Yapma kalbim,
Darilma...
nedeni var herseyin
Suclu, sorumlu arama
Sorma, sorma kalbim sorma
Bilirsin sen aslinda
Yok ki kaybedeb askta

Icime süzülür gizlice, mahsum gözyaslarim
Sessiz kalirim hakli gidisine

Dedi ki, yanliziz bu yolda,
Ömür denilen ruyada,
Sen, sen ol tutsak etme aski zamana...

X2
Kirilma,
Yapma kalbim,
Darilma...
nedeni var herseyin
Suclu, sorumlu arama
Sorma, sorma kalbim sorma
Bilirsin sen aslinda
Yok ki kaybedeb askta


thanks

Sen önce tanı, bil kendini
Sarıl da kalbine
Sonra beni sev dedi
Hepimiz yalnızız bu yolda
Hayat denilen oyunda
Önce seni sonra beni bul dedi
Kırılma, yapma kalbim,
Darılma.
Nedeni var herşeyin
Suçlu, sorumlu arama
Sorma, sorma kalbim, sorma
Bilirsin sen aslında
Yok ki kaybeden aşkta

İçime süzülür gizlice mahsun gözyaşlarım
Sessiz kalırım haklı gidişine

Dedi ki yalnızız bu yolda
Ömür denilen rüyada
Sen, sen ol tutsak etme aşkı zamana

(x2)
Kırılma, yapma kalbim,
Darılma.
Nedeni var herşeyin
Suçlu, sorumlu arama
Sorma, sorma kalbim, sorma
Bilirsin sen aslında
Yok ki kaybeden aşkta

First recognize and know yourself,
Embrace your heart,
Then love me, she said
We're all lonely on this road
They say life is a game,
She said, "First find yourself, then find me
Don't break, don't do this, my heart
Don't be angry
There's a reason for everything
Don't look for someone to blame
Don't ask, don't ask, my heart
Actually, deep down, you know that
When it comes to love, no one loses

My innocent tears will secretly stain me inside
I won't say anything at your departure

She said, We're all lonely on this road
They say that life is a dream
Be by my side, don't captivate love to time

(x2)
Don't break, don't do this, my heart
Don't be/get angry
There's a reason for everything
Don not look for someone to blame
Don not ask, don't ask, my heart
deep down, you know that
When it comes to love, no one loses

i think its right.......

aferin sana smile

thanks so much

your welcome!