TURKISH MUSIC BAND TO SHARE STAGE WITH ARMENIAN AND PALESTINIAN MUSICIANS
Anadolu Agency
June 24 2009
Turkey
ISTANBUL (A.A) – 24.06.2009 – A Turkish music band will share the same
stage with Armenian and Palestinian musicians in the following week,
one of soloists of the band said on Wednesday.
Turkish "Kardes Turkuler" (Bogazici Performing Arts Ensemble) will
perform together with Armenian musician Arto Tuncboyaciyan and
Palestinian musician Reem Kelani at Istanbul’s Turkcell Kurucesme
Arena on June 30, soloist Fehmiye Celik told a press conference.
"We are expressing our demands that nations should live equally on
these soils with these shows," Celik also said.
Celik said the Middle East needed urgent peace, and defined both Arab
enmity and Anti-Semitism as bad.
"Therefore, we will altogether voice Arab and Jewish songs,"
Celik said.
Also, Tuncboyaciyan said that races and religions were the spices
of life.
"What is important is humanity. As an Armenian, I have no hatred
against Turks," Tuncboyaciyan said.
Kardes Turkuler came into being in 1993, as a concert project by
the Bogazici University Folklore Club. The concert, which aimed to
interpret Anatolian folksongs based on their own cultural structure
and in their original languages, was comprised of four sections:
Turkish, Kurdish, Azerbaijani and Armenian.
The project, based on the ideal of living together in fraternity,
also took a stand against the polarization and tensions which had
been created among different peoples in a multicultural land. Later
on, the Kardes Turkuler project began broadening its repertoire,
performing songs from such cultures as Laz, Georgian, Circassian,
Roman, Macedonian and Alevi among others. These were arranged in
accordance with the philosophy of the ensemble. (BRC-AO)
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
