I doubt that it is something to do with ´killing sheep´..

See this picture (taken from last year´s Qurban festival. morning time) 

And it is not called ´killing sheep´ you simpelton!!!. 

It is simply ´sacrificing animals for poor´ and has been performed  since the time of Abraham/Ibrahim!!

Since it is nothing to with that I go for Femme´s option:

http://vimeo.com/69478597 (11th Istanbul LGBT Pride March. 30 Jun 2013.)

We finally managed to screw the world up I guess.. It has been raining and storms in the UK. We will be drowning here very soon!!. But in Turkey it is completely different story. They dont have rain (or snow) there and there might be water shortages soon (especially in Istanbul) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C3_u5Nei-M

Kardeş Türküler Zepur Gi Tarnam (Meltem Olurum)

Meltem olurum hafif, eşsiz
Dağlardan inerim, kapında otururum
Sevginden yanmış şövalye gibi
Kılıcımı koyarım bağının kapısına

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQlvJtdvL7s

Sezenler olmus - Yeni Turku(Derya Koroglu)

Aramızda dağlar yollar yıllar var iken,
Beni sana sımsıkı sarılı görenler olmuş
Sargın yaprakmışım dallarına,
yangın toprakmışım yağmurlarına.

See, I dont know that area. But at least I guessed it is not a view from Bosphorus.

Well..

This does not look like a view from Bosphorous.

It has to be from Halic/Golden Horn.

Eyup Sultan?

Serious?

Lena Chamamyan - Sareri Hovin Mernem (Armenian Song) 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5hoOscF0kM

Arabesque is something more than ´just sad music´. It is a sub-culture.

A few years ago in a column I wrote the text below about arabesque:

"But I would like to have a few words about our pop music´s illegitimate baby conceived from the folk music: Arabesque!

Sometimes it is called as  "yoz music -degenerated music ", "gecekondu -shanty town/ night buildings-  music" or as "minibus music.". This music contains almost every single aspects of the folk music but the songs mainly come from city life and culture, opposed to the rural culture which gave life to folk music. This music takes its material from the changing cultural structures of the cities after mass immigrations. The separation of the cultures in big cities and difficulties of adaptation have been the main contributers of this music. The main themes in this kind of music have  always been constant hopelessness and expressions of pain and That is the reason why some people (like me) show a negative attitude!!

 I think the name ´Orhan gencebay´  specifically should be mentioned when we talk about arabesque music in Turkey as his unique style brought the term  "arabesque music" itself."

Seven years have already passed since the hate murder against Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the highly esteemed former editor-in-chief of weekly Agos, as a new commemoration looms without light having been shed to the killing.

The Friends of Hrant Dink organization, established in memory of the late journalist, has called for a march Jan. 19 starting at 1:30 p.m. from Taksim Square and will end with homage to Dink in front of Agos newspaper’s building in Pangaltı.

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Dink was murdered in broad daylight in front of his newspaper’s building on Jan. 19, 2007 by a 17-year-old Turkish nationalist. The triggerman Ogün Samast was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to 22 years and 10 months of prison after a two year-trial, but the trial pertaining to the plotters of the assassination has since become a byzantine lawsuit.
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The march will one more year use the slogan “Buradayız Ahparig!” (We are here, brother[in Armenian]) to draw attention to the trial process.

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source: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gezi-park-closed-before-hrant-dink-commemoration.aspx?pageID=238&nID=61219&NewsCatID=339

Extra source : http://armenpress.am/eng/news/746646/hrant-dink%E2%80%99s-murder-carries-out-for-reasons-of-state-tradition-taner-ak%C3%A7am.html

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It has been 7 years.. What happened 99 years ago is the same as what happened  7 years ago.
This is our state tradition.