We extend our thanks to thousands of music lovers who embrace our magazine. We were delighted to see countless readers who said that they had been looking forward to have the magazine. Makam Music Magazine has been highly acclaimed and demanded not only in Turkey but also abroad, especially by foreigners loving the Turkish music, particularly in Azerbaijan, the Netherlands, Greece, and Germany. We had to reprint our first issue twice, but we did not have any time left for a third print since now is the time for our second issue…
 
Just like our first issue, we have discussed topics each one more beautiful than other in this issue. We are sure that you will enjoy our magazine. 
 
So, what’s in this issue? 
 
We covered Selahattin Pınar through the eyes of his granddaughter Özlem Pınar. Şafak Velioğlu explained how he raises environmental awareness in children by means of music. We discussed the Galata Mevlevi Lodge and Mevlevi Culture with the great ney player Salih Bilgin, and with Dilek Türkan her new album "AN". Elif Kızılhan told us how she gave life to the tanbur. Our writer, Berna Karadoğan, MSc.Architect, visited the Topkapı Palace Harem Chamber from a different eye and penned the musical activities in the Ottoman harem for us.

In this issue, we are also taking you to Germany. We discussed the Turkish musical activities in Germany with all the distinguished artists, music lovers, and the Cultural Advisor of Turkish Embassy, Huseyin Gazi Coşan.

This is a magazine for everyone who sets their heart to music and we’d like to receive your opinions, suggestions, contributions and support.

Our magazine is now with you…

Mehmet Şerif Sağıroğlu


Dear readers, as Makam Music Magazine, we wish you a happy new year with health, peace and bliss in 2020. We salute our third anniversary with this very issue 9. Once again, we are more than happy for offering you different colors and tastes in music with satisfying and genuine contents.

This issue welcomes Ara Dinkjian, a man of music, who is very close but is also beyond the ocean as he continues his career in New York. He opened his heart and showed the courtesy of answering our questions about music.

Indispensable for radio and television shows, Mustafa Sağyaşar is our guest for the “Memories” section of the magazine and he told us about his 67 years in art.

The doyen researcher and author Murat Meriç told us about “Hayat Dudaklarda Mey”, his praiseworthy book that narrates the stories of the songs from the Ottoman to the present.

Mehmet Şükrü Alkan, the head of the mehter platoon, told about “Mehter”, the most ancient military orchestra in the world.

We talked with A. İmre Tüylü, who organizes a festival after her late sister and well-known harpist Ceren Necipoğlu who we lost in a plane crash ten years ago. The “Ceren Necipoğlu Istanbul International Harp Festival” will be held on January 15. Go through our pages for details.

The researcher Burak Süme released his most recent work on the “Benliyan Troupe and Leblebici Horhor Ağa Operetta”.

Our source of pride, the conductor Nisan Ak, Arya Su Gülenç, and Kaan Baysal widely acclaimed for their around-the-globe achievements, Enver Mete Aslan&Ricardo; Moyano with their new album, Refik Hakan Talu with his wide range of music knowledge, and Areti Ketime, a prominent singer who sings, with unique renditions, our songs that are common to the neighbor Greece will be all our guests for this issue.

Dear Readers,

We are thrilled that a new music season is coming with the end of the summer. This season, numerous artists will be presenting their works to the art lovers primarily in Istanbul and in the rest of the country. And we will be closely following up with them for you.

We know very well that the albums, concerts and tracks are just the tip of the iceberg. Great efforts and hard labors are invested in each work. As Makam Music Magazine, we care very much to convey the journey of these hard works to you. This sheds light on the creating process of genuine works, and helps the coming music-enthusiast generations to benefit from the former experience and knowledge for improved insights to art.

This issue is again genuine and satisfying. Unearthing the centuries-old music heritage from the depths of Anatolia, Hasan Saltık told us about the story of Kalan Müzik.

Please welcome Müjdat Gezen and his new musical Eğlence Dünyası; Turkey’s source of price Atilla Aldemir; İMERA, one of very special music groups appealing to millions of audience; Turgut Özüfler, a world-famous qanun player who runs his own qanun academy now; and Nazire Yağız Savran, Ayfer Vardar, Mustafa Copcuoğlu, Refik Hakan Talu, Baha Yetkin, Akdeniz Erbaş in addition to many other precious people of music…

With warmest regards,
Mehmet Şerif Sağıroğlu

Dear Readers,

We are utterly happy to release the seventh issue of Makam Music Magazine.

In this issue, Edip Akbayram, a great artist, who cherished his fiftieth year in art, has been our guest. With his fifty years of knowledge acquired through life and art, he showed the courtesy of giving sincere answers to our questions.

Hopefully, you will also enjoy interviews with Selami Şahin, Erkan Oğur, Serap Mutlu Akbulut and many more music people.

In this issue, we are particularly happy and proud to announce an inspirational project that overcomes obstacles through music. You will be reading the valuable explanations by Hüseyin Aksoy, the Governor to Kocaeli, who has created and built up an exemplary project for the world.

Our bilingual magazine is 'one of the twenty-one magazines in the category of music magazines in English' made available around the globe via PressReader, a Canada-based & world's biggest digital magazine platform. The achievement we have reached in making our music accessible on a global platform is surely a joy and source of price for all.

Come on in for Makam Music Magazine's free,  independent, vivid and satisfactory content.

With warmest regards,
Mehmet Şerif Sağıroğlu

We are more than happy to be preparing issues with the most precious names and significant subject matters for you.

Thanks to cooperation with Pegasus Airlines, a national value on the skies, we are delighted and proud to announce that you will be able to turn pages of Makam Music Magazine via cabin digital entertainment system on your flights.

To contribute to our music and readability of our magazine across the globe, we will be gladly announcing our good efforts on an international scale very soon.

Cihat Aşkın, an international representative of the Turkish violin school, and a cultural ambassador, who has brilliant command of the east and the west, and have lived on both ends of the two continents, shared with us his remarkable opinions about the Turkish Music Strategy.

I owe no small debt to great people of music, who generously contributed to our satisfactory and genuine content in this issue, too. Thank you once again for supporting us with this journey for 1,5 years. We owe it to our readers and artists who care for music.

Enjoy spring to the fullest in joy, peace and, of course, with music!

With warmest regards,
Mehmet Şerif Sağıroğlu


As Makam Music Family, we have left behind our first year together with you. Every issue we prepared was more meaningful and more comprehensive with supports from you.
The citylines ferry, which was named after Prof. Dr. Alaeddin Yavaşça, began voyages to the blue waters of the Bosphorus.
We start this issue with our children who are our future. We are hosting the Borusan Children's Choir and well-regarded conductor, Gülsen Yavuzkal.
The archive of Dr. Şehvar Beşiroğlu, who is always memorialized with mercy and gratitude, was donated to the ITU Turkish Music State Conservatory by her elder sister Lawyer Beyza Koral.
The last part of our journey to the recent history of Turkish music with Kudsi Erguner is allocated in this issue for you.
More than six hundred new works were competed in the 100th year Üsküdar Music Society Turkish Classical Music Composition Contest. Kolektif Istanbul group has told the story of past 15 years to our magazine at the celebration of its 15th anniversary. “Cafe Aman Istanbul” group, which gave the Istanbul City Music concerts to the choke-full of audiences for two nights in the the famous Megaron concert hall of neighboring capital city Athens, brings out the different colors of Istanbul. One of the greatest voices of the century, Kani Karaca was told with his different aspects by his son Mehmet Ali Karaca for our valuable readers.
Nergis Orhon Soydaner, Hülya Memiş, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Selva Erdener, Mehmet Evren Hacıoğlu, Ayla Çelik, İbrahim Avcı, Homayoun Shajarian, Can Çakmur, Murat Dalkılıç, Burçin Uçaner Çifdalöz, Sarah McKenzie, Tuğba Aydın Öztürk, Burak Özdemir are all in this issue with their valuable music works...
Wish you a year full of health, happiness and music.
Mehmet Şerif Sağıroğlu

We are delighted to present you the fourth issue of our music magazine Makam. We have valuable guests and interesting topics also in this issue. 
Müzeyyen Musical Theater finally opened the curtains. It is worth watching the musical which was prepared with intense efforts of the distinguished artists. It is a great achievement for our country to remember with a fascinating musical such a precious artist who has written her name to the republic period. With the best known words, “the older the wiser”, however we wish the young generation better understands the art values of this land. 
You have heard the great composer Avni Anıl and his memories from many valuable artists. We rewrote the famous composer through the eyes of his son, Ezgi Anıl. In the International Violin Competition in Hungary, our young violinists returned with four awards. We have a special interview about the valuable work of the conductor Suat Sancar, the flag bearer of Turkish Music in London, and the award given to him by the Queen of England.
We will talk about Ikrami Ozturan, an artist who devotes all his time to art, his successful works in Turkey and abroad, and FAMI Music and Art Association which invites all art lovers to use its benefits. 
You will find here the second part of the series of our previous issue; “All About Music with Kudsi Erguner” and “ Music Therapy with Özgür Salur”.
We have written for you Lutiye Rifat Varol, a young craftsman who is visited by the ney players from all over the world and the factors behind his success.    
Dimitris Kirlimpas (Kırlıbaş) told us the secret of voices and their effects on human nature with the “Singing Bowls“. In this issue, you will find two very valuable articles written by the experts on the “legal status of using the stage names for the musicians” and “the reduction of the taxes on the artists”.
With our deep respects...
Mehmet Şerif Sağıroğlu 


In this issue, we welcome Nesrin Sipahi, the Queen of Turkish Music. I believe that reading the evaluations and opinions of a living legend from her childhood years to present day on life and music, would excite you as much as they excited us. 
Kudsi Erguner, Murat Salim Tokaç, Münip Utandı, Sedat Öztoprak, Serap Çağlayan, Meral Azizoğlu, Melda Kuyucu Kılıç, Niko Andrikos, Fulya Özlem, Özgür Salur, Kenan Öztürk and Selin Tenik… These valued artists replied your questions and talked about the subjects everyone wonders. 
In this issue, we went to Paris for you and returned with information about the Turkish music activities in Paris.
Coşkun Karademir, who ranked in the top of Europen music charts with his album “Call of the Birds” told us about the road to success.
It is known that music is a cure-all. The valued scientists who use music scientifically to improve human health will meet with you in this issue, as well as in the future issues.
We wish everyone a healthy and wonderful summer full of music.
Mehmet Şerif Sağıroğlu


Dear Readers,

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Maybe, the most beautiful piece of art is music. It is the melodic life that begins inside a mother’s womb, an integral part of human nature. Music is the most beautiful common ground that brings people together.
 
The geography we live in has hosted a deep-rooted music history. At the same time, the states and the heads of these states also made a considerable amount of contribution to music. Especially during the periods of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic, the interest of the statesmen in music and some of them being seriously engaged in music, have ensured that this branch of art is supported and brought into the present with a unique richness. Thus, numerous musicians have created invaluable works of art. It is our duty of loyalty to our history to preserve these works of art, tell their value and transfer them to future generations.
 
On each page you will going to read, we have strived to establish a bridge between the fascinating mystery of the musical history and the colors of our day built on this deep-rooted history. Our magazine is prepared in both Turkish and English in order to contribute to its goal of telling the universal characteristic of the Turkish music to the whole world.
 
This is the magazine of all who set their hearts on music.

Very truly yours.

Mehmet Şerif Sağıroğlu

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Dear Readers,

Maybe, the most beautiful piece of art is music. It is the melodic life that begins inside a mother’s womb, an integral part of human nature. Music is the most beautiful common ground that brings people together.
 
The geography we live in has hosted a deep-rooted music history. At the same time, the states and the heads of these states also made a considerable amount of contribution to music. Especially during the periods of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic, the interest of the statesmen in music and some of them being seriously engaged in music, have ensured that this branch of art is supported and brought into the present with a unique richness. Thus, numerous musicians have created invaluable works of art. It is our duty of loyalty to our history to preserve these works of art, tell their value and transfer them to future generations.
 
On each page you will going to read, we have strived to establish a bridge between the fascinating mystery of the musical history and the colors of our day built on this deep-rooted history. Our magazine is prepared in both Turkish and English in order to contribute to its goal of telling the universal characteristic of the Turkish music to the whole world.
 
This is the magazine of all who set their hearts on music.

Very truly yours.

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Makam Music Magazine - Spring 2018

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