Donald Macleod explores the opportunities the Turkish Five found after travelling home from their time abroad. Donald Macleod explores the opportunities the Turkish Five found after travelling home ...

Greece's entry for Eurovision 2025, the song "Asteromata" performed by Klaudia, has sparked reactions in Turkey over its alleged historical references.

Donald Macleod examines the ongoing legacy of the Turkish Five and asks if the cultural agenda of the early Turkish Republic damaged or even destroyed authentic Turkish music.

The renowned Turkish composer and educator Ilhan Usmanbaş has passed away at the age of 104. The news of his death was shared ...

Calculating Empires; Okay's 5/8; Fortune And Men's Eyes; 1969 - Take 1; 1969; Near East; Naive - Take 1; Naive; Istanbul Don Cherry and Okay Temiz composed this the soundtrack for Engin Cezzar and ...

There's plenty of music this weekend, but Thanksgiving week itself is pretty quiet. Here are this week's best options, along with a long look ahead to the weekend AFTER Turkey Day, when music ...

Syria’s new interim leader, meeting on Tuesday with the president of Turkey, thanked him for backing the rebel forces that ...

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At the fourth annual Turkish Music Festival in September 2021, musicians from the Hoppa Project, with master clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski, took our audience on a foot-stomping cultural tour of Turkey ...