This is a 500-year-old song that carries both Turkish and Arabic elements. UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing in non-English language). CHANG: It's being taught in southern Turkey by Syrian classical ...

I see Umm Kulthum as something beyond art. In the world, there is art and then there is Umm Kulthum’s music,’ says Turkish singer and musician Arif Altunkaya - Anadolu Ajansı ...