Hi Slavica,

I`m going to suggest you a very nice website to listen turkish songs. The good thing is that you can listen the songs immediately when clicking on them. You dont have to download them. So you save a lot of time when checking whether you like them or not. The bad thing is that you need to have "real player" installed on your computer.
Real player can be downloaded here (its a free full version program):
http://www.download.com/RealPlayer/3000-2139_4-10255189.html


Now, go to the following web pages. Click on any song and start listening immediately.
http://www.turkishmusic.org/index2.html
http://www.turkishmusic.org/index2b.html

These are my picks from that website.

From page1 (A-K):

all 70's GREATEST HITS
all 70's GREATEST HITS - II
AJDA PEKKAN
AYTEN ALPMAN
BARIS MANCO
BARIS MANCO-ERKIN KORAY
BULENT ORTACGIL
FIKRET KIZILOK
HUMEYRA
ILHAN IREM

From page1 (L-Z):

MAVI SAKAL
MAZHAR FUAT OZKAN
SEZEN AKSU
TEOMAN
TIMUR SELCUK

This is a very well organised website I think. For instance if you chose "70's GREATEST HITS" and click on "listen all" you dont have to do anything else. All the songs will come one after another.

By the way, I really belive the 70's were a much better time in Turkey than these days regarding music quality. I still spend hours listening to Hümeyra and Ayten Alpman.

Hello slavica,

the song you want can be found here:
http://www.mp3kaydet.com/

1. Open the website http://www.mp3kaydet.com/
2. on the top left there is a nevigator. Here you need to click "turkce mp3 arsivi" and you will see a lit of singers.
3. Choose mustafa sandal and you will see on the top of the songs the song you want. There are even 4 versions of this song.
4. you click on the song
5. on the next page there will be a button "Download etmek icin tiklayin". Click it and save the file.
6. when you open the zip file it will ask for password. As you can see from the website sifre (the password) is mp3kaydet.com

From the same website you might also like the following. I would prefer any of them to tarkan or mustafa sandal.

Ajda Pekkan
Sezen Aksu
MFÖ
Teoman
Şebnem Ferah

Merhaba Pamuk,

maybe a little late but welcome to the turkishclass forums. Thank you for sharing your ideas with us. There haven't been many yet but I like reading your posts. I hope to see more of them.
Considering your perfect English I think you have been abroad for long now.
And yes I belive things have changed a lot in Turkey, especially in big cities.

Cheers,
Erdinc

I cant find find the lyrics for "sizi nasıl özledim".

But during the search I came across to some usful pages:

http://www.turkishsongs.net/artist.asp?artist=115#words
http://www.muzikarsivi.net/sarkisozleri/sarama.asp?ara=tatl%FDses
http://www.idobay.com/

ayrılık kolay değil
onu gel sen bana sor
günlerim yalnız seni
aramakla geçiyor

kader ayırdı bizi
elimizden ne gelir
sabrın sonu selamettir
başa gelen çekilir

bahtiyar olamadım
garibim şu cihanda
bir gün ben de ölürsem
arkamdan sen ağlama

http://www.akordefteri.com/arsiv.php?akorgoster=d58072be2820e8682c0a27c0518e805e&kategori=2

Sanatci : Ibrahim Tatlıses

YEŞIL YEŞIL

Sende bu güzellik varken
Bakılmazmı yeşil gözlüm

Bu gönül senin uğruna
Yakılmazmı yeşil gözlüm

Yeşil yeşil yeşil yeşil
Senin yeşil gözlerin

Yeşil gözlerinde ela
Yeşil gözlerinde bela

Beni düşÃ¼rdü bu hala
Senin yeşil gözlerin

http://www.muzikarsivi.net/sarkisozleri/file.asp?file_id=466

Güneş Yarın Doğmayacak

Performed by: İbrahim Tatlıses

Rüzgarın önünde yaprak gibiyim
Sellere kapılan bir dal gibiyim
Izdırapla yüklü dertli biriyim
Çileler önünde savruluyorum
Yaşadıkça hergün kahroluyorum
Güneş doğmayacak yarın üstüme
Belki gözlerimi kapatacağım
Ruhum bu dünyadan göçüp gidecek
Belki son günümü yaşayacağım
Belkide son günümü yaşayacağım

Rüzgarın önünde yaprak gibiyim
Sellere kapılan bir dal gibiyim
Izdırapla yüklü dertli biriyim
Çileler önünde savruluyorum
Yaşadıkça hergün kahroluyorum
Güneş doğmayacak yarın üstüme
Belki gözlerimi kapatacağım
Ruhum bu dünyadan göçüp gidecek
Belki son günümü yaşayacağım
Belkide son günümü yaşayacağım

http://www.turkishsongs.net/words.asp?songdata=24655

Ayağında Kundura
Yar Gelir Dura Dura
Genç Ömrümü Çürüttüm
Göğsüme Vura Vura

Ölürem Ben Ölürem
Nere Gitsen Gelirem
Ben Bir Yetim Çocuğam
Arar Seni Buluram Vay

Çıktım Kerpiç Duvara
El Ettim Nazlı Yara
Eski Yar Öyle Dursun
Can Kurban Yeni Yara

Hi Slavica,
the title "Istanbul my love" by qaheri, was too inspiring and I couldn't resist to write something down. Now, I'm reading the lines aloud, trying to catch the rhythm behind. Some parts are clear, some not so much. All in all it sounds good to me but needs to be read a little slowly and intermittently.


About the woman analogy I think maybe it's because for some, Istanbul is like a mother and for others like a lover. It's like Istanbul has a desire to be beautiful.

erdinç

Thank you bliss.