Mavi Sakal is a Turkish rock band, founded by Murat Tümer, Kaan Altan, and Tibet A??rtan in 1980, who were students at the Tarsus American College in Tarsus, Turkey. The band changed their name to Mavi Sakal (literally, blue beard, or Bluebeard) in 1984, until then going by the name ECHO'83.
