According to the news by Lisa McDonald from examiner.com website, Nile Foundation opens Orlando's first Turkish cultural center on August 16th:

The Orlando Turkish Cultural Foundation will open at 576 N. Semoran Blvd, in Orlando with festivities starting at 3pm and going until 6pm. There will be a live concert of authentic Turkish music, folklore music, traditional Turkish foods, entertainment for the children and much, much more. Admission in to the event is free and they want to invite residents out to see what the Turkish culture has to offer Orlando and what the foundation is all about.

Şehr-i Hüzün is the 2009 album of the Turkish rock band Manga. It means City of Sadness. This is the Ottomanish/Arabic style. şehir means city and hüzün means sadness

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Hacı Bayram-ı Veli is one of the most famous people in Islam world. He was born in Ankara. In that time, Ankara was a little town. This mosque was built in the name of him in the time of Selçuk State (Seljuq Dynasty). This mosque is next to the Augustus temple.

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Levent Yüksel is a very famous Turkish pop music singer. He is also a bass guitar player. He performed many songs of other pop music singers as a back vocal singer. Many of his own songs have a special sense of humor. This song is kind of fun. "Bi' Daha" is the story of a husband who drinks with another lady and then regret what he had done.

In the name of this song, we see an apostrophe. This is because we Turks say "bir" (one) some fast, and it becomes as if we said "bi". Because of this contraction, we put an apostrophe in the writing language. "daha" means "more". So "bir daha" means "one more". "tövbe" is "repentance", or as an exclamation: "Never again!". He says "One more? Never again!" :)

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NBC's" Today Show" about Turkish traditional food. If you are interested in Turkish language as well, try to get what he says at 3:03 :)

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Do you remember Duman? They were very famous with their song Aman Aman some years ago. I remember I put their videoclip on the old website. But we had another song in the new site: Özgürlüğün Ülkesi.

A few months ago, Duman released their new album... Or maybe I should say "new albums" because they released two albums together. Their names are Duman 1 and Duman 2. This song is from their new album: Dibine Kadar "Until The Bottom"

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Manga released their new album Şehr-i Hüzün some months ago. I think it is a depressive album as the name of the album says: "The city of sadness". And it has good songs. This song is Dünyanın Sonuna Doğmuşum (I was born for the end of the world). This song protests the situation of the world, the destruction of the cultural values.

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This is an old song, or as we call: türkü, by Karacaoğlan. It is performed by Orhan Hakalmaz, who is one of my favorite türkü singers :) This is a love song like many other Karacaoğlan songs. You may remember more of his rhytmic songs performed by the band Badem.

In this song, he talks to his heart. He says: "My heart, don't go to foreign lands, because maybe it is not possible to come back. Don't be swayed by all the beauties, maybe it is not possible to love her". I hope you enjoy this touching song.

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Kubat is a Turkish folk music singer and composer. I think he has a very good and strong voice. This song is a sad love song. Yar means beloved, yara means injury, wound. Yar Yarası is the wound of the beloved. I hope you enjoy this song and also clip.

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