Turkish singer Murat Gogebakan dies

ISTANBUL 

Murat Gogebakan, renowned Turkish rock singer, has died of a heart attack due to leukaemia in Istanbul early Thursday. 

Gogebakan had been undergoing cancer treatment since 2009 and had been in intensive care for the past ten days.

He was born in 1968 in Turkey's southern city Adana, and studied music in Ankara State Conservatoire.

The singer has won many awards including best singer of the year 1996 and also the best-selling album of 1996.  

Gogebakan composed an election campaign song for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and had been visited by him on July 4.

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