celebrities in the event. First, Serdar Ortaç started singing a song with modified lyrics to boost nationalist feelings, then people in the ceremony started singing 10th Year March. Later, Kaya was attacked by celebrities. Kaya's wife describes the attack as "All of a sudden, all of those chic women and men, they all turned into monsters, grabbing forks and knives and throwing them at us, insulting, booing. Imagine the atmosphere changing in just five minutes, almost a Kafkaesque transformation." Exile and death The incident led to a prosecution case which made him leave Turkey. In March 2000 he was sentenced in absentia to three years and nine months in prison on the charge of spreading separatist propaganda. Later, however, the mass media allegation showing Kaya in front of the poster was proven to be forged. He died from a heart attack in Paris in 2000, at the age of 43, and is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery. He is buried in item number 71. Vandalism of grave In November 2021, visitors of his grave found it to be recently attacked by unknown perpetrator(s). Discography Ağlama Bebeğim (1985) Acılara Tutunmak (1985) Şafak Türküsü (1986) An Gelir (1986) Yorgun Demokrat (1987) Başkaldırıyorum (1988) Resitaller-1 (1989) İyimser Bir Gül – Kod Adı Bahtiyar (1989) Resitaller-2 (1990) Sevgi Duvarı (1990) Başım Belada (1991) Dokunma Yanarsın (1992) Tedirgin (1993) Şarkılarım Dağlara (1994) Beni Bul (1995) Yıldızlar ve Yakamoz (1996) Dosta Düşmana Karşı (1998) Posthumous: Hoşçakalın Gözüm (2001) Biraz da Sen Ağla (2003) Kalsın Benim Davam (2005) Gözlerim Bin Yaşında (2006) Posthumous awards In June 2012 the Turkish Association of Magazine Journalists awarded Ahmet Kaya its Special Prize. In October 2013 Ahmet Kaya was given the Grand Presidential Prize in Culture and Arts in the music category on the day that would have been his 57th birthday. References Further reading Official Biography of Ahmet Kaya in English External links CNN's report about his death Interview with Gülten Kaya, Ahmet Kaya's wife His biographical information by Kurdish Institute of Paris 1957 births 2000 deaths Kurdish male singers Turkish-language singers Turkish people of Kurdish descent Kurdish-language singers Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 20th-century Turkish male singers