İbrahim Tatlıses (born İbrahim Tatlı) is a Turkish pop-folk singer and actor of Kurdish origin who sings in Turkish.He was born in the city of Şanlıurfa and is a folk singer and former actor.Tatlıses has recorded 42 albums, including notable albums such as Ayağında Kundura and Selam Olsun.n the 1980s the Turkish government had banned the use of Kurdish; at a concert in Sweden in December 1986, he had sung two folk songs in Kurdish and was thus prosecuted for separatist propaganda, but found not guilty in 1987.