Naşide Göktürk (12 March 1960 – 30 August 2016) was a poet, songwriter, composer and performer who was born in Istanbul and died in Bodrum. While he spent his childhood and youth in Büyükada, he started his writing adventure during his school years. He worked as an accountant in his early years, then ran a cafe in Ankara, and released his first album called "Yüreğim Rehin" in the mid-1990s. The song of the same name from this album became his best-known work.
Naşide wrote many compositions on the theme of love; She dedicated songs such as "Sakın Ha" and "Yüreğim Rehin" to the actor Altan Erkekli, to whom she was engaged for a while. The lyrics and music of the song "Allah Şahit" in Aşkın NurYengi's album "Haberci" also belonged to Naşide. The artist also wrote poetry books such as "I Set My Voice on Fire", "Last Teas", "My Heart is a Hostage", "I Loved You Blue Blue", "Like a Tulle", "Pırlanta Fairy", "I Found You While I was Savrulün" and "Always".
If we look at his discography, there are six albums named “Yüreğim Hostage” (1994), “Yüreğim Hala Hostage” (1996), “Kan Kırmızı” (1997), “Kimsem Yok” (December 2000), “I Want to Forget” (2003) and “I Fly My Childhood” (2016). On July 27, 2015, her close friend, Turkish classical music artist Onur Akay, announced that Naşide was diagnosed with lung and pancreatic cancer; This news deeply shook the art community and its fans.
Naşide Göktürk, who was taken to a private hospital in Bodrum for cancer treatment, died on August 30, 2016. According to his will, he was buried in Bodrum.
