Asia Society kicks off a weekend of Turkish music concerts and lectures in collaboration with the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University with world-renowned Turkish clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski, ...

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 ...

The 500-year reign of the Ottoman Empire was the most pervasive — and progressive — influence over Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the upper Arab peninsula. Though the dissolution of the empire and ...

Turkish music has many different sounds that people around the world enjoy. However, finding singers who show the full range of Turkish musical talent can be difficult. This guide will introduce you ...

After the protests were broken up in Saraçhane, a historic square in Istanbul, Professor Aslı Tunç descended into the metro, thinking she’d left the street noise behind. On the platform, a man stood ...

Altin Gun’s fans say the band does more for Turkey’s image than the government. No one seems to mind that it’s actually Dutch. By Alex Marshall Late one night in 2016, Jasper Verhulst was sitting on ...

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 ...

A young autistic Turkish male with a talent for "absolute pitch" can play 10 instruments at a professional level. Murat Yurtcu, 23, was diagnosed with autism at the age of 4 when his family took him ...