Mehmet Ali Sanlikol plays a traditional oud at his studio in Belmont, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Grammy-nominated Turkish composer and musician Mehmet Ali Sanlikol fuses traditional Turkish music with ...

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.

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 ...

Vol. 13, No. 1, Resounding 1923: Musical Modernities from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic (2024), pp. 167-208 (42 pages) The critique of Orientalism in music studies has tended to focus on ...

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 ...