Founded by refugee musicians, a music institute in Southern Turkey tries to revive forgotten Syrian classics and integrate Turkish and Syrian cultures with music the two have shared for centuries.
The story of the band Altin Gun begins with an old record from the '70s. JASPER VERHULST: Seven or eight years ago or something, I just started collecting music from basically all around the world.
Beyond the stone walls of Istanbul’s majestic Blue Mosque, a musician plucks out a traditional Turkish song on his autoharp and the men in the tea garden sing. Loudly, lovingly, the men sing under the ...
Istanbul musician Melike Sahin’s literary lyrics and stage presence have helped create a modern diva
Turkey’s music scene is so vibrant and eclectic that many Western stars are unheard of here. This homegrown dominance became even more unassailable in the mid-2010s when a period of political ...
Most people are aware of the song “Istanbul was Constantinople” and perhaps no better than the Greeks of Istanbul themselves.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Female Turkish lawmakers sang a Chilean song in parliament that has been taken up in demonstrations globally to protest violence against women, and displayed photographs of women ...
A Turkish singer-songwriter has been slapped with a criminal complaint by the interior ministry over a song deemed "obscene" in the latest legal move targetting artistes over alleged public indecency.
The story of the band Altin Gun begins with an old record from the '70s. JASPER VERHULST: Seven or eight years ago or something, I just started collecting music from basically all around the world.
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