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  1. Anadolu Pop: Anadolu Pop is a musical style created by Murat Ses of Mogollar in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The style is a synthesis of W...
  2. Anatolian rock: Turkish rock or Anatolian Rock is a fusion of Turkish folk and rock music. It emerged during the mid-1960s, soon after rock gro...
  3. Beste (Turkish music): The beste is a vocal genre in Ottoman classical music. It was a movement of the fasil, or suite. ...
  4. Ciftetelli: Ciftetelli is a dance probably of Turkish origin, that is found in most of the territories and surroundings of the former Ottom...
  5. Cocek: Cocek (Serbian CHOCHEK / cocek, pronounced "cho'-chek"; compare Macedonian CHOCHEK, Albanian qyqek, Bulgarian KYUCHEK (kyuchek o...
  6. Cumbu: The cumbu is a Turkish stringed instrument of relatively modern origin. Developed in the early 20th century by Zeynel Abidin C...
  7. Fasil: The fasil is a suite in Ottoman classical music. It is similar to the Arabic nawba and waslah. ...
  8. Gazel: Gazel is a form of Turkish music that has almost died out. While in other parts of the Central Asian world, gazel is synonymous ...
  9. Halay: ...
  10. Kamancheh: This article is about the Persian kamancheh. For the related but different Turkish & Armenian instrument see Kemenche. ...
  11. Kanto (music): Kanto (Cantare Music) Italian theater and opera has had a profound effect on Turkish culture in the past century. Like the termi...
  12. Kar (Turkish music): The kar is a vocal genre in Ottoman classical music. It was a movement of the fasil, or suite. ...
  13. Karilama: ...
  14. Kemal and Rob Data: Kemal & Rob Data are a Scottish Drum & Bass DJ/production duo. Between 1999 and 2002 they released a great volume of techno drum...
  15. Kemenche: A kemenche (Turkish: kemence, Laz: C'ilili, Greek: kementzes) is a bottle-shaped, 3-stringed type of rebec or fiddle from the B...
  16. Khigga: ...
  17. Kurdish music: Kurdish Music refers to music performed in Kurdish language. ...
  18. List of makams: Here is a list of the most widely used makams of Turkish classical music: ...
  19. Longa (Middle Eastern music): A longa is a genre in Turkish music that was adapted from the Gypsy music of Eastern Europe in the late 1800s. It was later ado...
  20. Makam: In Turkish classical music, Mevlevi music, and some Mosque music, a system of melody types called makam (pl. makamlar) provides ...
  21. Maqam: Maqam is a modal structure that characterizes the art of music of countries in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. I...
  22. Misket: Misket is a type of dance/folk music from the Ankara, and Aegean regions in Turkey. The word literally means marble (toy) in Tur...
  23. Music of Thrace: Music of Thrace is the music of Thrace, a region in Southeastern Europe spread over southern Bulgaria (Northern Thrace), northea...
  24. Music of Turkey: The music of Turkey includes diverse elements ranging from Central Asian folk music and music from Ottoman Empire dominions such...
  25. Oni Wytars: Oni Wytars is an early music ensemble that was founded in 1983 by Marco Ambrosini and Peter Rabanser. ...
  26. Oriental metal: Oriental metal is a subgenre of folk metal that combines heavy metal music with elements of traditional Middle Eastern music. Th...
  27. Ottoman classical music: Ottoman classical music developed in palaces, mosques, and Mevlevi lodges of the Ottoman Empire. Feldman, Walter. Music of the ...
  28. Oud: The oud is a pear-shaped, stringed instrument, which is often seen as the predecessor of the western lute, distinguished prim...
  29. Perev: Perev , Pirev , peshrev, or pishrev is an instrumental form in Turkish classical music. It is the name of the first piece of mu...
  30. Sama'i: '''''Sama'i'''is a genre of instrumental Turkish classical music. Along with the perev(bashraf''), it was introduced into Arabic...
  31. Sarki: A arki is an art song in Ottoman classical music which forms one of the movements of a fasil (suite). It is performed with an us...
  32. Saz semai: The saz semai is an instrumental genre in Ottoman classical music. It was typically the closing movement of a fasil (suite). Th...
  33. Taqsim: Taqsim is the name of a melodic improvisation style that could be metric or non-metric, which usually precedes a composition in...
  34. Teslim: A teslim is a refrain in classical Arabic music and Ottoman classical music. It returns several times in the genres of ''sama'i...
  35. Tsestos: Tsestos,(Cestoto), (Rencper) is a challenging dance is from Greece's Rumelia Region, next to the Bulgarian border. It was probab...
  36. Turkey Top 20 Chart: The chart is founded in November 2006. The charts are announced from the web site weekly, and monthly from the "Billboard Turkiy...
  37. Turkish folk music: Turkish folk music (Turk Halk Muzigi) has combined the distinct cultural values of all those civilisations which have lived in A...
  38. Turkish music (style): "Turkish music", in the sense described here, is not really music of Turkey, but rather a musical style that was occasionally us...
  39. Turkish musical instruments: Turkish musical instruments can be broadly classified into five categories, namely Ottoman classical, Western influenced modern,...
  40. Turkish Rock Top 20 Chart: The chart is founded in November 2006. The charts are announced from the web site weekly, and monthly from the "Billboard Turkiy...
  41. Turkish Top 20 Chart: The chart is founded in November 2006. The charts are announced from the web site weekly, and monthly from the "Billboard Turkiy...
  42. Turku: Turku is a name given to songs in Turkish folk music. ...
  43. Usul (music): In Ottoman classical music, usul is an underlying rhythmic cycle that complements the melodic rhythm and sometimes helps shape t...
  44. Yuruk semai: A yuruk semai is a genre in Ottoman classical music. It was a movement of a fasil (suite). It is generally composed in an usul ...
  45. Zonaradiko: Zonaradiko (Pravo Trakijsko Horo) is a traditional folk dance from Thrace that is named after the dance's handhold. Dancers hol...

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