Mısırlı Ahmet ( Ahmet Yıldırım born, 1963 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish virtuoso darbuka player. His music spans various genres and carries influences from Indian, Arabic, Latin American and jazz music. Ahmet Yıldırım started his music life playing a Turkish-style darbuka. He states that he was a fairly ordinary player before his travel to Egypt, to play with and learn from some of the best darbuka players; most of all "to find the meaning of his existence" and "to discover the rhythm".