Karadır kaşların ferman yazdırır

"Karadır kaşların ferman yazdırır" (Bahçelerde Çiçek Açmış) is a popular Turkish türkü (folk song) and a legend on which the song is based.

Karadır kaşların ferman yazdırır is a popular folktale in Turkey about an impossible love between a Muslim Turkish man (the composer himself) and a Greek-origin Muslim girl, his neighbor, from Seyitgazi.

[1] There are similar folk tunes in Anatolia among various ethnic groups, for instance, in Armenian Սասնո ահեղ կռվին (Sasno ahegh krvin) in Armenia.

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