Music of Turkey

The music of Turkey includes diverse elements ranging from Central Asian folk music to heavy influences from Kurdish music, Arabic music, Byzantine music, Greek music, Ottoman music, Persian music, Armenian music, and Balkan music, as well as references to more modern European and American popular music. Turkey is a country on the northeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and is a crossroad of cultures from across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus and South and Central Asia