page_title: Barış Akarsu
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Barış Akarsu / Death
caption_attribution_description: Türkçe: Amasra'dan çeşitli görüntüler
context_page_description: Barış Akarsu was a Turkish rock musician and actor who rose to fame after winning the television series Akademi Türkiye in July 2004. He released two studio albums in three years and was also acting in television series Yalancı Yarim which aired on Star TV.
  On 29 June 2007, he was seriously injured in a car accident on his way back from a charity concert for children. After spending five days in an intensive care unit, he died of complications from the accident on 4 July 2007, at the age of 28.
context_section_description: On June 29, 2007, Akarsu and two friends were on their way to a celebration party for his birthday in Bodrum. Their car collided with a truck at an intersection with no traffic lights. The driver of the car, Zeynep Koçak, and passenger Nalan Kahraman died on the day of the accident. Barış Akarsu was transported to a hospital with severe injuries. On July 4, 2007, Akarsu died due to complications arising from the accident.
  The location of the accident is a crossroads at the end of a long and straight downhill grade. As a result of protests decrying the lack of traffic lights at that dangerous intersection, new lights have been installed. And also the intersection's name changed to "Barış Intersection" after his death.
caption: A statue erected in his honor in Amasra
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