Song of the day: Köleler ve Kilitler by İlkay Akkaya

Singer İlkay Akkaya was born on May 26, 1964, in Istanbul. She studied at Marmara University and began her music career when she became a member of the music group Grup Yorum in 1987. On January 10, 1990, she founded the group Kızılırmak along with Tuncay Akdoğan and İsmail İlknur. By April 2008 the group had released 13 albums. One of her albums is “Köleler ve Kilitler (Slaves and Locks).” The album includes a song with the same name “Köleler ve Kilitler.” The song is about slave trades.

We share this song with you on the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition celebrated every year on August 23. August 23 is also a historical date for the Haitian Revolution, an insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue. The revolt began on 22 August 1791 and ended in 1804 with the former colony's independence