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Aslîka Qadir (born 1945) is a Kurdish singer, born in a Yazidi Kurdish village in the Elegez (Aragats) area of Armenia. She graduated in Persian language and literature from Yerevan State University in 1968, and in 1964, while still a student, she was invited to record the song "Welatê Me Kurdistan e" at Radio Yerevan, where she became known as "the voice of Radio Yerevan" and also hosted literature and poetry programmes. She was elected to the Armenian parliament on the Communist Party ticket, left Armenia for Europe in the 1990s, and settled in Germany; her memoirs were published in Kurdish in 2023. Her recordings are kept in the Public Radio of Armenia archive.