Istanbul Funeral for Ahmet Ertegun
Kid Rock and the Turkish foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, were among hundreds of mourners who paid tribute yesterday to Ahmet Ertegun, a co-founder of Atlantic Records, at his funeral in Istanbul, his birthplace. “He could not sing, but he was music personified,” Kid Rock told the state-run news agency Anatolia. Mr. Ertegun, who helped shape the careers of Ray Charles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and many others, died on Thursday in Manhattan at 83. He was buried at an ancestral family site near a Muslim religious lodge on the Asian side of Istanbul, The Associated Press reported. “The one thing he loved more than music was Turkey,” Anatolia quoted Lyor Cohen, the chief executive of the Warner Music Group, the parent company of Atlantic Records, as saying. Mr. Gul said Mr. Ertegun had done much for the country. “Nobody has, or ever will, do what he did for Turkey in the United States,” Mr. Gul said. “He has left a large void.”
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