05.04.2025 14:00
The news of the death of the artist Volkan Konak, who passed away after collapsing on stage at a hotel in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on the first day of Ramadan Feast, has plunged the art world into mourning. Musician Selim Bölükbaşı, who shared the stage with Konak for the last time, expressed his sorrow by writing, "How could I have known that your gentle pat on my head was a farewell as you left my side?"
The artist known as "Son of the North," Volkan Konak, passed away after suffering a heart attack at the hotel where he performed on the first day of Ramadan Bayram. The unexpected death of the artist plunged his fans and the music world into deep sorrow. Selim Bölükbaşı, who shared the stage with Konak on the same day, expressed his feelings following this tragic event.
"MY BRAIN WENT NUMB, MY HEART CLENCHED" Bölükbaşı articulated his emotions as follows: "I struggled a lot not to make this post because I couldn't accept it. However, the reality that I had to do it did not allow me to refrain. Can I fit what needs to be said here?
Of course, NEVER!!!" "The burning in my heart, the numbness in my brain, the clenching of my heart, the inadequacy of my eyesight, the feeling that the blood in my veins has been drawn out, the sensation of my body crashing into a wall at 300 km/h and being shattered, the indescribable ping-ponging between our last backstage conversation and the scene where I collapsed and received CPR, the weight of a million memories packed into our 20 years, the weakening of the strength that your courage gave us, the diminishing of the ideas that this country needs the most, everything you taught and experienced, the sadness of no longer having your brotherly support, the drunken fatigue we experienced at the end of our stories will never happen again, and the pain of many things that cannot fit here...
How can I fit this here? How can I write it? How can I share it? Is there anyone who can describe it? No language can express this pain!"