The music of Turkey includes diverse elements ranging from Central Asian folk music and music from Ottoman Empire dominions such as Persian music, Balkan music and ancient Byzantine music, as well as more modern European and American popular music influences. In turn, it has influenced these cultures through the Ottoman Empire. Turkey is a country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and is a crossroad of cultures from across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus and South and Central Asia.The roots of traditional music in Turkey spans across centuries to a time when the Seljuk Turks colonized Anatolia and Persia in the 11th century and contains elements of both Turkic and pre-Turkic influences. Much of its modern popular music can trace its roots to the emergence in the early 1930s drive for Westernization.With the absorbance of immigrants from various regions the diversity of musical genres and musical instrumentation also expanded. Turkey has also seen documented folk music and recorded popular music produced in the ethnic styles of Armenian, Greek, Polish, Azeri and Jewish communities, among others. Many Turkish cities and towns have vibrant local music scenes which, in turn, support a number of regional musical styles.

I can't put a finger on it, but in the wake of that incredible day....I stopped listening to music. Cold turkey. No jazz, no funk, no Prince, no Mozart...nothing. For years, I went through an endless cycle of BBC, CNN, AIr America Radio...anything and everything that was news...Read more....It is really worth it if you are a Creative. I promise.

LifeLock [5%vol.] rocks Turkey hard! Check out their music and videos on myspace.com/lifelock.

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Turkish popstar Tarkan (born Tarkan Tevetoğlu on October 17, 1972 in Germany) is one of the most successful pop music singers in Turkey. His albums regularly sell millions of copies. Tarkan's albums: Metamorfoz, Tarkan Bounce, Dudu, Karma, Kuzu Kuzu, Ölürüm Sana, A-acayipsin, Yine Sensiz.

Noel Murray has been writing about rock for seventeen years. But in 2008, he's going to swear off all new music -- no buying, no listening, no downloading -- and go through the 30,000 tracks already stored in his iTunes alphabetically. He'll write about the experience weekly at the A.V. Club -- this week he lays out the ground rules.