Ali Ekber Çiçek

Ali Ekber Çiçek (1935 – 26 April 2006) was a Turkish folk musician.
Çiçek was born in 1935, in Erzincan, Turkey. His father died in the Erzincan Earthquake and thus Çiçek worked as a farmer at a young age. Financial problems limited him to an elementary school education. Nevertheless, he attended Alevi gatherings called cem, where he became familiar with both playing bağlama and the philosophy of Alevism.
He moved to Istanbul with his aunt at age 9 and made... meer