Ahmet Yıldırım

Ahmet Yıldırım (born 1963 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish virtuoso darbuka player. In the late 1980s he went to Egypt where he was known as أحمد التركي (Aḥmad al-Turki, i.e. Ahmed the Turk). Upon his return to Turkey he became known as Mısırlı Ahmet i.e. the Egyptian Ahmet.