Kerem Bürsin never planned to be a Turkish megastar. Though he was born in Istanbul, he spent his formative years living internationally and attended high school in Texas, where he began acting in ...

Fatih Akin‘s “Head-On” is an energetic blast of extreme situations — it has laughs and tears, goth songs by The Sisters of Mercy alongside Turkish traditionals, the hip bars of Hamburg and the dusty ...

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.

Learn about the controversy surrounding Turkish artist Mabel Matiz, who is facing jail for his lyrics in the song 'Perperişan'.