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music performed on radio by artists such as Sadi Yaver Ataman, Tamburacı Osman Pehlivan, Servet Coşkunses and Muzaffer Sarısözen drew great interest. Ruhi Su, starting in early 1960s, carried out private studies outside the scope of the radio and pioneered the reinterpretations of the folk tunes. Still after 1975, Zülfü Livaneli and Arif Sağ introduced contemporary quality into folk music with their new tuning of the bağlama (a native string instrument) and new interpretation of the use of the other folk instruments as well. Eventually Turkish folk music progressed to be the
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most popular style of music in recent years. Along with the popularizing influence of the radio and television, endeavours of the State Turkish Folk Music choruses affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism have also played an important role in this achievement. The State Turkish Folk Music choruses were established in Sivas and Şanlıurfa following the first chorus created in 1986 in Ankara, and these choruses displayed successful performances in traditional forms of anonymous character as well as compositions, performing both in monophonic and polyphonic styles.
The different types of saz (stringed instruments) belonging to the “bağlama” family, shepherd’s pipe, tar (a tiny stringed instrument played in the mouth), kemençe, çifte (a pair of small drums), mey (a small oboe), zurna (a single-reed instrument played continuously with a unique technique), drum and tulum (bagpipe) are the notable instruments of Turkish folk music.
 Pop, Rock and Jazz: The “Rock’n roll” scene which spanned the entire world as of the 1960s, and the “beat” concept taking shape with the Beatles were watched closely
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| also by young music bands in Turkey. The inclination in the beginning was to write Turkish lyrics for foreign compositions and eventually this was replaced by authentic compositions which fused popular western music with Turkish folk music. Music pieces in which priority was given to artistic interpretations, creativity and musicality prevailed in time. In line with these developments, an enormous music market has formed in recent years and a significant increase is recorded in domestic sales of music cassettes and CDs. Especially Turkish pop and rock music cassettes fancied by the young break sales records nowadays. |
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More than 100 million foreign and domestic music cassettes and CDs are sold annually. Tarkan, Barış Manço, Sezen Aksu, Nilüfer, Kenan Doğulu, Sertab Erener, MFÖ, Şebnem Ferah and Teoman in the pop genre, and Kerem Görsev, İlhan Erşahin, Nükhet Ruacan, Gürol Ağırbaş and Okay Temiz in jazz are among the best-known artists. |
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Famous singer Sertab Erener attained momentous international success when she won the 48th Eurovision Song Contest held in Riga, Latvia on May 24, 2003 with her song “Every Way That I Can”. |
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