When audiences settle in tonight at the Music Center at Strathmore to hear Sezen Aksu sing, they will be experiencing an evening with who critics call the queen of pop music in Turkey. “She is loved ...

The iconic singer has faced threats for "insulting Islam" over a 2017 song. In response to the president's threats during a speech at a mosque, Aksu released the lyrics of a new song where she says, ...

NEW YORK - Famous Turkish pop-singer Sezen Aksu will give concerts in the United States between April 4 and 7. The concert tour of Aksu will begin at Strathmore Concert Hall in North Bethesda town of ...

Pro-government media and politicians target the singer because of a song in which she says, "Say hello to the ignorant Eve and Adam." A criminal complaint has been filed against Sezen Aksu, a renowned ...

Sezen Aksu, the queen of Turkish contemporary music, has sold more than 20m albums in her 30-year career. She provoked some of the wildest scenes I have ever seen at a foreign-language concert when ...

Pop diva Sezen Aksu's song about Adam and Eve has got her into hot water with Islamist groups and Turkey's pious president - but in an open letter, supportive intellectuals and artists say she will ...

The jailing of prominent journalist Sedef Kabas and threats against famous pop diva Sezen Aksu are stirring controversy in Erdogan's Turkey. It's part of a trend that brings Islamists and government ...

It was summer in Istanbul, 1989, and her voice steamed out of every doorway, as compelling as the call to prayer. Who was she? After hearing her everywhere, I asked a waiter to write down her name, ...

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Since releasing a video clip for one of her songs, singer Sezen Aksu has faced threats. A group of government supporters filed a criminal complaint against her and she later became the target of the ...

One of the most rousing, emotional performances that I have seen in a London concert hall was back in 2002, when the Turkish diva Sezen Aksu made her British debut, in front of a frantically excited ...