Anatolian rock

The most widely known members of this genre include Turkish musicians Barış Manço, Cem Karaca, Erkin Koray, Selda Bağcan, Fikret Kızılok alongside bands such as Moğollar.

In Istanbul, high school and university students began forming their own bands and performing covers of rock'n'roll and twist music in 1957.

From 1968 to about 1975, psychedelic rock became popular in Turkey, notably the work of Koray,[10] regarded as a "hugely influential figure on the Istanbul music scene".

Another pioneer, Fikret Kızılok, combined the style of Anadolu Pop with overtly political lyrics, and experiments with electronic music.

In 1964, Tülay German performed the song "Burçak Tarlası" at the Balkan Music Festival, in a bossa nova style, and became immediately popular.

As a direct result, the newspaper Hürriyet organized a "Golden Microphone" (Altın Mikrofon) competition,[11] to encourage the development of new songs in Turkish blending folk tunes and Western style music.

For young people, popular music became synonymous with leftist thinking, protests for greater equality, freedom and worker's rights.

As the 1970s went on, economic recession and social unrest arose across Turkey and on 12 September 1980, military coup brought the Anatolian rock genre to an end.

[15] The influences acting upon all these bands fall into a wide range of genres, from the Seattle Sound to heavy or doom metal and rapcore.