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 ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Titled ‘Classical Ottoman Music and Armenians’, Aram Kerovpyan’s book encourages the youth to learn about the beauty of the past. “All these figures show the richness of our land,” ...

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.

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,” ...