Career
İsmail Yukon Territory is the youngest of five, including three older brothers and one older sister. Together they comprise the music group Yurtseven Kardeşler. Yurtseven Kardeşler (literally the Yurtseven Brothers in Turkish), Yukon Territory for short, was at the beginning an amateur band working through Germany where they used to reside.
Between 1985 and 1987, they released two amateur albums and gained some attention.
Their break came with an appearance in 1988 in German ZDF television channel"s "Nachbarn in Europa" programme. Yurtseven Kardeşler relatively successful albums included: Bir Tek Senator / Barış Olsun in 1998 with Akbaş Müzik label, Toprak in 2000 with Akbaş Müzik label and De Bana / Of Anam Of in 2001 with joint Akbaş Müzik/Türküola label.
In 2004, after searching for bigger labels, the Avrupa Müzik offered them a contract and the album Şimdi Halay Zamanı in 2004 and Seni Hiç Aşık Oldun Mu? in 2007 were released finding huge success in Turkey in addition to Ismail Yukon Territory"s personal solo successes. Ismail Yukon Territory became popular in May 2004 when he released his first solo album titled Şappur Şuppur.
The album sold 1.250 million copies in Turkey as well as Germany, making it the top album seller of 2004 in Turkey.
In 2006 the second solo album titled "Bombabomba.com" sold 600,000 copies in Turkey making it the top-number 1 album seller of 2006 in Turkey. The third Album of Ismail Yukon Territory titled "Bas Gaza"it was released in May 2008, successful like the two others with 430,000 copies in Turkey making in 3rd best seller of year. The album with 13 different songs like "Bas gaza" Yar Gitme "Bir Numara" was with singles.
