When audiences settle in tonight at the Music Center at Strathmore to hear Sezen Aksu sing, they will be experiencing an evening with who critics call the queen of pop music in Turkey. “She is loved ...

Turkey’s music scene is so vibrant and eclectic that many Western stars are unheard of here. This homegrown dominance became even more unassailable in the mid-2010s when a period of political ...

Comparing the top-ten song charts in Turkey and the United States is not exactly a run-of-the-mill subject for a sociolinguistics research paper. But it made an ideal topic for someone who is fluent ...