Tag: Turkey

The first carpets were almost certainly those made by the nomadic tribes who wandered central Asia, and bear a close resemblance to the cotton kilims still available today. Turkish rugs are usually ...

By 2020, Turkey’s fashion and clothing sector will be as best as those of Italy, say the country’s industry heads. In the last few years, the Turkish textile and garment ...

Mevlana Celaddiin-i Rumi is a 13th centuryMuslim saint and Anatolian mystic known throughout the world for his exquisite poems and words of wisdom, which have been translated into many languages. Rumi, as he is known in the ...

Overview In terms of film production, Turkey shared the same fate with many of the national cinemas of the 20th century. Film production wasn't continuous until around the 1950s and ...

Popular music is to a large extent produced by the consumer generation, or even if not later came on to take on many of those characteristics, and takes its form ...

Western influence had already begun to be felt in Ottoman music towards the middle of the 19th century. These increased towards the end of the century, and led to efforts ...

Turkish musical folk instruments can be classified as follows: String Instruments a) Played with a plectrum b) Played with fingers Saz, Baglama, Tar Bow Instruments Kabak Kemane, Karadeniz Kemencesi Wind Instruments Zurna, Kaval, Çigirtma, Mey, Tulum, Sipsi, Çifte Percussion ...