Well-known Turkish musician and scholar Latif Bolat performs. Bolat, who specializes in Sufi music, has performed in more than a dozen countries. He has recorded soundtrack music for George Lucas and ...

A late March snow descends on a modest farmhouse in central Anatolia. An oil stove hisses away inside, as afternoon gives way to twilight. A heavyset man with a thick black mustache adjusts his cap, ...

The 500-year reign of the Ottoman Empire was the most pervasive — and progressive — influence over Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the upper Arab peninsula. Though the dissolution of the empire and ...

The Cappadocia region of central Turkey is famous for its rock formations, although this past weekend the area drew a different kind of attention via Echoes From Agartha. Happening at the base of one ...

ANKARA, Turkey -- ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Several high-profile Turkish celebrities were summoned on Wednesday for questioning and blood tests as part of a drugs-related investigation, reports and ...

Music and TV stars are among those summoned for questioning and blood tests by Turkey's Narcotics Crimes Bureau.

For centuries, dengbej songs served as news bulletin, history lesson and evening's entertainment all in one. Master singers continue to perform.... In Turkey, Kurdish Singers Keep Traditional Music ...