Friday marks 173 years since the passing of legendary composer Ismail Dede Efendi, known by many as the father of Ottoman classical music. “Dede Efendi is the pioneer of the Ottoman classical music,” ...

Record collector Ian Nagoski has been buying up cheap 78 rpm discs for over a decade. The 36-year-old music junkie and record store owner always had one rule: "My policy was to buy anything in a ...

Turkey's cultural diplomacy organization Yunus Emre Institute (YEE) on Friday organized a concert in Washington, introducing Ottoman classical music to the Americans. The audience showed great ...

From the Middle Ages to the first decades of the 20th century, the vast Islamic state known as the Ottoman Empire held sway. It took root in what is present-day Turkey and grew to include various ...

Just a century after Austria repelled Ottoman troops from the gates of Vienna, a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, newly arrived in the city, wrote an opera about the feared former foe that he set in a ...

“Dede Efendi, with his special talent in music, received the special attention of Ali Nutki Dede,” a prominent poet and musician, he added. Friday marks 173 years since the passing of legendary ...

When Ateþ Temeltaþ was a boy in Istanbul, his father, Abdurrahman, seemed prescient about the effect that Westernization, and an eventual relocation to the West, might have on his ambitious offspring.

“NEITHER the sweets of Damascus, nor the face of the Arab.” This Turkish adage sums up the disdain modern Turks have long expressed for their Arab neighbours, a disdain that became fashionable with ...

Turkish music is about to reach a new audience. Already popular across Germany and the Netherlands, thanks to the large immigrant population of "guest workers", it's now being promoted to the British ...