The history of Turkish Arabesque Music
When Turkish President Ataturk came to power in the 1920s, he saw the West as an example of what he wished his newly founded state of Turkey to be. In a bid to achieve this, Turkish radio banned the broadcast of classic Ottoman music in favour of Western-style music. But people resisted and instead tuned to Arabic music, and a new form of Turkish music emerged – Arabesque.
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