here is another top:
http://www.klip24.com/
miss_ceyda gave this link some time ago too

K.I.B.= kendine iyi bak = take care

http://www.kultur.gov.tr/smm/cvl/main.html
unfortunatly it is all in turkish .
here is the turkish daily news article about this:

Virtual Music Museum explores Turkish music wealth

ANKARA - Turkish Daily News


The Culture and Tourism Ministry has established a Virtual Musical Museum to share the musical wealth of Anatolia with music lovers both at home and abroad.

The museum's coordinator, Oğuz Elbaş, told the Anatolia news agency that Turkish music from ancient times to the present day were documented in the Virtual Music Museum project.

Elbaş said chronological and historical information on Turkish music, instruments and recording sessions of musical pieces were compiled and transferred to digital format.

Noting that a comprehensive audiovisual source had been established for those interested in Turkish musical culture both here and abroad, Elbaş said, “The project includes old and new research on the development of Turkish music throughout history as well as music from all civilizations that settled in Anatolia.

“Original musical instruments, or their equivalent if the originals are not available, archaeological materials such as tablets and ornaments associated with these instruments and other related materials are displayed at the museum in chronological order,” he said.

He said the museum was also an important source in terms of world music culture, adding, “All the audio and visual materials related to Anatolian music displayed at the museum were compiled in a way so as to complement the historical development of world music culture.”



Turkey possesses largest number of old musical instruments:

Elbaş also said there were over 1,000 archaeological and ethnographic musical materials in Turkey appropriate for display. “Turkey possesses the largest number of archeologically significant musical instruments in the world.”

The museum features 250 images, 50 photographs and a large number of sound recordings obtained by exploring the 12,000-year history of Turkish musical culture, Elbaş said. “A musical structure including a comprehensive archive of the world's oldest music and instruments is featured at the museum. It explores the thousand-year history of our musical culture.”

“We have 42 ‘raspa,' a musical instrument dating back 12,000 years, mostly found in the provinces of Hatay, Şanlıurfa and Diyarbakır. This wealth we possess attracts a great deal of attention from abroad,” he said. “People say they could establish a museum if they possessed even one musical instrument like a raspa, which is specific to our culture.”

Elbaş said archaeological and ethnographic musical instruments should be appropriately displayed. “These instruments are dispersed among Turkish museums; however, no serious work has been done so far for a music museum. There are 100 music museums in Germany and 150 in France. Yet they don't possess the same historical musical instruments we have.”

“It is therefore very sad that we don't have a real music museum in Turkey,” he added.

Elbaş said the Culture and Tourism Ministry was also working to establish a music museum aimed at further promoting Turkish culture and that there would be a congress titled “Music Culture and Music Museum in Turkey Throughout History,” in May at Ankara's Bilkent University.



Raspa:

According to research posted on the ministry's Web site, music and dance were commonplace in Anatolia, performed during religious ceremonies as well as at funeral rituals during the Neolithic period.

Evidence shows that group dances were done and that musical instruments such as small bells, drums and raspa were used during this period.

Instruments made of bone dating back to the Neolithic and post-Neolithic periods have also been unearthed. Sound was created by rubbing a rough object over notches located on the instruments. The raspa is the oldest and most common musical instrument of ancient times, with a sound produced in this fashion.

The Virtual Music Museum can be visited at: http://www.kultur.gov.tr/smm/cvl/main.html

ups.. and allah versin can be translated as : may God provide/ May god help u? i learned like this from here :http://www.practicalturkish.com/idioms-turkish-a.html
but i guess this can't be slang ....

Allah versin - God bless u

Is DIRI DIRI (= alive) slang ?

I guess i am the worst driver ever!! I can't park that car.. not even at level 1 !!! can anyone do this? looks imposible to me. Ps : i don't have a car licence so I am not a danger yet
that snowman is scary it made me cry

thank you Janissary, very touching song.. but beautiful. I wish the one who wroth the song, haden't gotten the chance to write this song , in other words, i wish the war didn't happen

Is someone kind enough to translate the song erdinic uploaded?

Turkish Daily News
Court sentences man to life in prison for killing German girl
Saturday, March 18, 2006

A court on Friday sentenced a man to life in prison for the murder and rape of a German girl who was vacationing in Turkey, the girl's lawyer said. Bülent Gülbay was ordered to serve life for raping 11-year-old Lisa Eder, killing her and attempting to hide the evidence, lawyer Zafer Kayakıran said.

The girl was vacationing with her family in the Turkish Mediterranean resort town of Alanya in October 2004 when she disappeared and was later found dead.

Under the ruling Gülbay would serve a minimum of 25 years in prison before any possibility of parole, Kayakıran said. Gülbay was to appeal the ruling.

Gülbay owned a clothing shop near her hotel and had a record of sexually abusing juveniles, authorities say. He has been in police custody since the killing.

The shock produced by Eder's murder resulted in the municipality deciding to prevent individuals with a criminal record from opening shops in town.