Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a country straddling Western Asia and Southeast Europe. It shares borders with Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest; the Black Sea to the north; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea to the west. Istanbul, The largest city is Istanbul, while Ankara is the capital. Turks form most of the nation’s population, and Kurds are the largest minority.

Turkey is a secular state with no official state religion, with Islam being the dominant religion.  The roots of traditional music in Turkey span across centuries to a time when the Seljuk Turks migrated to Anatolia and Persia in the 11th century and contains elements of both Turkic and pre-Turkic influences. Today, the music of Turkey still includes mainly Turkic elements as well as partial influences ranging from Central Asian folk music, Arabic music, Greek music, Ottoman music, Persian music, and Balkan music, as well as references to more modern European and American popular music.

Reference: Turkey – Wikipedia