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Thread #150056   Message #3494540
Posted By: Jack Campin
25-Mar-13 - 06:41 AM
Thread Name: Searching Music from Greece and Turkey
Subject: RE: Searching Music from Greece and Turkey
One song that has become topical in Turkey in recent years is the "Yemen Turkusu", aka "Burasi Mustur". It was written during WW1, abut a village in eastern Anatolia that lost most of young men fighting the British in Yemen. It's become a comment on any of the wars in the region - Turkey's own civil war in Kurdistan in particular. Here it is applied to Gaza, sung by the crew of the "Mavi Marmara":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl2n15iArxs

You will find many versions of that on the web. Look for the recording date to see which war the singer had in mind.