Tuna Kiremitçi

{{Short description|Turkish singer-songwriter and crime author}}

{{infobox musical artist

| name = Tuna Kiremitçi

| image = Albumkapakfoto.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|2|24|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Eskişehir, Turkey

| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter|composer|poet}}

| years_active = 1994–present

| genre = Alternative music

| website = {{official website|www.tunakiremitci.com/}}

}}

Tuna Kiremitçi (born 24 February 1973) is a contemporary Turkish singer-songwriter and crime author.

He is generally inspired by tragedies of common people, the dilemmas of women-men relationship in the society, and the melancholy of aging, all of which he used to create both sad and happy concepts in his works, and is influenced by the "romantic irony" brought by Professor Gürsel Aytaç to the Turkish literature.{{cite web|url=https://www.kitapyurdu.com/kitap/cagdas-turk-romani-uzerine-incelemeler/283769.html|title=Çağdaş Türk Romanı Üzerine İncelemeler|first=Gürsel|last=Aytaç|date=14 October 2016|publisher=Doğu Batı Yayınları|via=KitapYurdu.com}}

In the 1990s, he worked both as a soloist and composer in the rock group Kumdan Kaleler, and together they released the album Denize Doğru in 1996. After releasing his first solo album, Kendi Halinde, in 2007, he collaborated with the Atlas rock group on the album Selam Yabancı (2013){{cite web|url=http://www.milliyetsanat.com/yazar-detay/yavuz-hakan-tok/temiz-bir-rock-albumu-atlas-selam-yabanci-/3564|title=Yavuz Hakan Tok - Temiz bir rock albümü: Atlas - Selam Yabancı - Milliyet Sanat|website=www.milliyetsanat.com}}{{cite web|url=https://hthayat.haberturk.com/yasam/roportajlar/haber/1018281-atlas-grubu-albumu-jedi-kafasiyla-yaptik|title=Atlas Grubu: Albümü Jedi kafasıyla yaptık!|website=hthayat.haberturk.com}}{{cite web|url=https://egoistokur.com/tuna-kiremitci-ve-atlas-albumu-jedi-kafasiyla-yaptik/|title=Tuna Kiremitçi & Atlas: "Albümü Jedi kafasıyla yaptık…"|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/kultur/seyirciden_atlasa_tam_not-1163595/|title=Seyirciden Atlas'a tam not|website=Radikal}} as a soloist and songwriter. Together with Atlas, they released the EP Bir Uyumsuz Bulut in 2015.{{cite web|url=https://www.aksam.com.tr/yasam/atlasin-yeni-albumu-bir-uyumsuz-bulut-dinleyicilerle-bulustu/haber-403390|title=Atlas'ın yeni albümü 'Bir Uyumsuz Bulut' dinleyicilerle buluştu - Akşam|website=aksam.com.tr}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/keyif/tuna-kiremitci-nin-gonlunden-yatan-aslan-muzikmis-29220307|title=Tuna Kiremitçi'nin gönlünden yatan aslan müzik(miş)|website=www.hurriyet.com.tr}}

In 2010, in an operation by the police to identify a prostitution mafia marketing of foreign women, he was invited to give a statement to the Istanbul Public Security Branch Directorate on the grounds that he had come across the mafia's customers.{{cite web | last = Demir | first= Mehmet A. | title = Ünlülere fuhuş takibi! | url = http://haber.gazetevatan.com/unlulere-fuhus-takibi/301549/7/Haber#.UHrsplHqCSo | work = Vatan | accessdate = 14 October 2012 | date =23 April 2010}}{{cite web | last = Tezel | first = Mevlüt | title = Tuna Rus kadınlarının dramını da yazmalı! | url = http://www.sabah.com.tr/Gunaydin/Yazarlar/sb-mevlut_tezel/2010/04/26/tuna_rus_kadinlarinin_dramini_da_yazmali | publisher = Sabah | accessdate = 14 October 2012 | date =26 April 2010| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140608143647/http://www.sabah.com.tr:80/Gunaydin/Yazarlar/sb-mevlut_tezel/2010/04/26/tuna_rus_kadinlarinin_dramini_da_yazmali | archivedate = 8 June 2014}}{{cite news|title=Ünlülere fuhuş takibi|url=http://www.haberturk.com/yasam/haber/510053-unlulere-fuhus-takibi|agency=Habertürk|date=23 April 2010}}{{cite news|title=Ünlüler birer kez kadın istemiş|url=http://www.milliyet.com.tr/unluler-birer-kez-kadin-istemis-gundem-1228990/|publisher= Milliyet|date=23 April 2010}} Despite these newspaper reports, there is no such statement in the Istanbul police records.

In 2013, he adapted Bu İşte Bir Yalnızlık Var and turned it into a movie, with Engin Altan Düzyatan and Özgü Namal portraying the leading roles.{{cite web|url=http://www.medyatava.com/haber/ozgu-namal-ve-engin-altan-duzyatan-in-rol-aldigi-bu-iste-bir-yalnizlik-var-filminin-fragmani-yayinlandi_99103 |title=Özgü Namal ve Engin Altan Düzyatan'ın rol aldığı 'Bu İşte Bir Yalnızlık Var' filminin fragmanı yayınlandı |publisher=MedyaTava |date=2013-11-18 |accessdate=2019-01-22}} The next year, he brought Dualar Kalıcıdır on stage, and Nurseli İdiz starred as the play's main actor.{{cite web|url=http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/idizler-kapali-gise-25917984|title=İdiz'ler kapalı gişe|first=Sinem|last=VURAL|website=www.hurriyet.com.tr}}

His books have been translated into 16 different languages.{{cite web|url=http://kalemagency.com/?page_id=1433|title=Tuna Kiremitçi - Kalem Ajans|publisher=}} Kiremitçi has a son and a daughter. For a while, he worked as a journalist for Cumhuriyet. On 11 June 2010, he started writing in the Hürriyet newspaper's Kelebek appendix, but ended his work with them in 2012.{{cite news|title=Tuna Kiremitçi gazeteden ayrıldı|url=http://haber.gazetevatan.com/hurriyete-kiremitci-soku/467087/11/Haber#.UH1oXlKypgw|accessdate=16 October 2012|newspaper=Vatan}}{{cite web | title = Hürriyet'ten değil Doğan Kitap'tan da ayrıldı | url = http://www.timeturk.com/tr/2012/07/24/hurriyet-ten-degil-dogan-kitap-tan-da-ayrildi.html | publisher = timeturk.com | accessdate = 16 October 2012 | date = 24 July 2012 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120727035239/http://www.timeturk.com:80/tr/2012/07/24/hurriyet-ten-degil-dogan-kitap-tan-da-ayrildi.html | archivedate = 27 July 2012}} Between 2013 and 2014, he wrote articles for the Aydınlık newspaper.{{cite web|url=https://odatv.com/hangi-unlu-yazar-aydinlikta-2708131200.html|title=Hangi ünlü yazar Aydınlık'ta|website=odatv.com}} Since 2020, he has been writing crime novel reviews in weekly newspaper Gazete Oksijen.

Kiremitçi stated that he put an end to his career as a writer in 2016 and will continue with music and poetry alone.{{cite web|url=http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/magazin/mezar-tasima-ozan-yazsinlar-40517775|title=Mezar taşıma ozan yazsınlar|first=Bilge|last=ATAY|website=www.hurriyet.com.tr}} In the same year, he started working on the album Tuna Kiremitçi ve Arkadaşları. Both his old and new compositions were used in the album and singers such as Pamela, Özge Fışkın, Gonca Vuslateri, Öykü Gürman, Gülçin Ergül, Jehan Barbur, Yıldız Tilbe, Sena Şener, Gökçe Bahadır, and Gülay voiced the songs as featured artists. After releasing the songs on YouTube, in 2017 they were released as an album by Pasaj Müzik.{{cite web|url=https://www.ntv.com.tr/sanat/tuna-kiremitci-sarkilarimi-hayattaki-cozumsuzlukler-uzerine-yazdim,Wa8LfaP870OEAONq06xefA|title="Şarkılarımı hayattaki çözümsüzlükler üzerine yazdım"|date=23 August 2017|website=NTV}} Alternative music critics Naim Dilmener (Hürriyet, 13 Jan 2017) described it as "A good album coming early with a new year",{{cite web|url=http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/keyif/tuna-kiremitciden-imece-usulu-album-40335486|title=Tuna Kiremitçi'den imece usulü albüm|first=Naim|last=DİLMENER|website=www.hurriyet.com.tr}} with journalist Asu Maro (Milliyet, 27 Jan 2017) believed that it was "The most sincere work of recent times."{{cite web|url=http://www.milliyet.com.tr/yazarlar/asu-maro/masum-degiliz-hicbirimiz-2385531/|title=MASUM DEĞİLİZ HİÇBİRİMİZ|website=MİLLİYET HABER - TÜRKİYE'NİN HABER SİTESİ}} Music critics Yavuz Hakan Tok (Milliyet Sanat, 13 Feb 2017) also commented on the album and wrote: "Tuna Kiremitçi is a good songwriter. He finds and writes beautiful and influential melodies and lyrics, and has been doing it since the time he was younger."{{cite web|url=http://www.milliyetsanat.com/yazar-detay/yavuz-hakan-tok/farkli-bir-proje-album-tuna-kiremitci-tuna-kiremitci-ve-arkadaslari-/7509|title=Yavuz Hakan Tok - Farklı bir proje albüm: Tuna Kiremitçi - Tuna Kiremitçi ve ArkadaÅŸları - Milliyet Sanat|website=www.milliyetsanat.com}}

The "Tuna Kiremitci and Friends" album was awarded in 2019 with one of Turkey's most important music awards the "Golden Butterfly Award".

In 2021, he returned to writing novels after a long time, and his first detective novel Mezun Cinayetleri (Graduate Murders) was published from Doğan Kitap. Critic Sibel Oral comments on the novel as follows: "Kiremitçi had tried something difficult. He did not fall into the cliché traps of crime narration, he wrote a novel that was self-confident, knew his story, and most importantly, told his story very well."{{Cite web|url=https://gazeteoksijen.com/kitap/kadinlar-iyi-dedektiflik-yapar//|title = "Kadınlar iyi dedektiflik yapar"|date = 23 April 2021}}

He is a graduate student at MSGSÜ Cinema-TV Department.{{cite web|url=http://www.msgsu.edu.tr/faculties/guzel-sanatlar-fakultesi/sinema-tv-bolumu|title=msgsu.edu.tr|website=www.msgsu.edu.tr}}