Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat

Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat
Born(1923-02-01)1 February 1923
Died16 October 2014(2014-10-16) (aged 91)
NationalityTurkish
Occupation(s)Composer, painter, poet

Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat (1 February 1923 in Malatya – 16 October 2014 in Ankara) was a Turkish composer, painter and poet.

Fırat graduated from Istanbul University with a degree in law in 1948 and held a career as a judge until his retirement in 1979.

All through his life, Fırat was involved in the arts: music, writing, painting. He began to compose music and write his first poems and stories in the early 1940s, and took up painting in 1960.