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.
Asia Society Texas, American Turkish Association-Houston, and Hoppa Project present Sounds of Anatolia, from the fifth annual Turkish Music Festival, a multi-day musical event dedicated to sharing a ...
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — When the powerful earthquake rocked her home in early February, 18-year-old Sidra Mohammed Ali woke up and thought of one thing: her music school — was it OK? The next day, as ...
Gaye Su Akyol has revived a style of music once thought deeply uncool, and she uses it to comment poetically on her country. By Alex Marshall ISTANBUL — The Turkish rock star Gaye Su Akyol took the ...
Comparing the top-ten song charts in Turkey and the United States is not exactly a run-of-the-mill subject for a sociolinguistics research paper. But it made an ideal topic for someone who is fluent ...