YEREVAN, MARCH 22, NOYAN TAPAN. Turk composer of songs and singer Yasar Kurt is in Armenia. The first visit of Turk musician to Armenia is a peculiar mission: K. Yasar and musician Arto Tuncboyacian are going to release a disk dedicated to the memory of their friend, Agos newspaper's editor Hrant Dink. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by Armenian Navy Band's manager John Grigorian, the two musicians were united by the circumstance that like Dink they are against hatred, intolerance and revenge. In their opinion, the mankind should be united, as life belongs to everybody and atmosphere of hatred will result only in misfortunes and losses. J. Grigorian said that as a result of this initiative a band has been formed from several well-known Armenian and Turkish musicians, which by names of Yasar and Arto is called Yas Ar (translated from Turkish means living). The band will record a disk, then will shoot a video clip on one of the songs. Y. Kurt was born in Turkey. He started his professional music career in the 1990-s by recording three disks of author songs. In his songs Yasar struggles against wars, violence and obtacles of human life.

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