#AprilFoolsDay 🃏 You probably don't know this groovy late 60s tune by Lili Ivanova, the 🇧🇬Ajda Pekkan, backed by 🇹🇷 pop legend Durul Gence and his band, comparing with a lovely accent the hardships of love to an April fool's joke ('Nisan şakası') 💔🎶 youtu.be/O_7Bc3JIR44

This is the unbelievable tale of Dounia Younes, who quit music at an early age to live a quiet life, while unbeknownst to her, half a world away, an old recording of hers was being used by Brain Eno, David Byrne, and many others to change music forever. projectrevolver.org/features/artic…

As a native 🇫🇷 speaker watching the spread of multiples 🔥 over 🇹🇷, it took me a while to realize that 'arazöz' (tr for 🚒) is derived from 'arroseuse', which has seemingly vanished from our own jargon due to recent technological developments in firefighting...🤷 #türkiyeyanıyor

İzmirli bisikletçiler

Underrated (late 60's?) budget 🇬🇷 music LP worth buying for the cover alone. Highlights include two tracks with Epirus tunes and performances by Istanbul-born bouzouki player Yorgos Mitsakis. Not ashamed to say that I own two copies...

The 1937 "Leon Trotsky goes to Mars with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk" fanfiction you didn't know existed.👇

It's 8.30am and here I am, reading about "The Tarzan of Manisa" originally a Turkmen from Iraq who settled in the hills of western Turkey after serving in the war of independence to plant trees and help the poor according to the local gov website manisa.gov.tr/manisa-tarzani…

Interesting sound document spotted on Ebay. Columbia 78rpm disk featuring an islamic call to prayer performed in Turkish as required by Atatürk in 1932 until 1950 when newly elected Democrat Party switched it back to Arabic. You can listen to it here: youtu.be/-Lt2uOOoOKc

.Zeki Müren Hattı // Zeki Müren Hotline is a wonderful art project by Beyza Boyacıoğlu revisiting the intimate connection between Turkish people and one of their most most iconic singers (and gender issues) 💅 (English Subs available)

.KALAN MÜZİK's latest contribution to the preservation of Anatolian musical heritage, 30 years after its foundation by Hasan Saltık (RIP): previously unreissued 78rpm recordings by Armenians immigrants in the USA straight from Ara Dinkjian's vault youtube.com/playlist?list=…

File under "Mediterranean(ism)"

Wordle Türkçe 215 5/6 f.github.io/wordle-tr/ via fatih kadir akın ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Found this artefact from circa 2011 while spring cleaning at my parents. Hey gidi günler 🥲 eksisozluk.com/20lik-raki--19…

WANTLIST: 📸 of customers shopping for North African music at "Disques Chandor" (116 bld de la Chappelle, Paris) used as cover art for various 7" singles cc VintageArab Toukadime des infos sur la boutique ?

ACİL LÜTFEN PAYLAŞIN #Maraş/#OnIkiŞubat'ta bir çift arkadaşımız göçük altında haberimiz yok 📍: Şehit Abdullah Çavuş Mahallesi, Tekerek Yolu Hamidiye Sitesi A Blok Etraflarında çalışan kurtarma ekipleri var mı bildiğiniz olan? 🙏🙏🙏 Yoshi #Onikişubatyardımbekliyor

Hello Twitter, doing my best to help some helpless but not hopeless 🇹🇷 friends here. If you have any knowledge regarding possible rescue operations happening in #Maraş, specifically #OnIkiŞubat please get in touch or consider rt my original tweet 🙏 #TurkeySyriaEarthquake

German broadsheet from Prague depicting a Turk’s head with snakes that appeared in an egg yolk as a maid prepared a meal in Autun in 1569. An ominous sign: the cat that ate a bit of egg white that fell on the ground died on the spot. GNM, HB810. objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/HB810

As an addition to my Turkish bandit film documentary (reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2024/05/20/efe…), I'm going to post several translations of bandit ("efe") literature. The first is an excerpt from Ömer Seyfettin’s story “The Lone Efe.” Check it out here: reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2024/08/12/ome…