Erkan Oğur has been played on NTS in shows including The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo, featured first on 12 June 2024. Songs played include Gnossienne No.1 and Yemen.

Erkan Oğur (b. 1954) is a Turkish musician, playing Turkish traditional music and his own compositions. Oğur plays fretless acoustic guitar, electric guitar, kopuz, and bağlama.

Born in 1954 in Ankara, he spent his childhood in Elazığ, in the east of Turkey. During his days there he developed an interest in violin and bağlama, and started to practise regularly. On leaving secondary school in Ankara, with his father's encouragement he started to study chemical engineering in…