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Articles-Interviews 1 June 2022

The musicians are speaking (III): “If they don’t want to help, let us work, let us do our concerts”

In this part of our article series, the opinion that it is possible to return to live performance concerts comes to the fore. Both Tonmaister Hünkar Çalışkan and musician Ufuk Şafak say that concerts can be held under healthier conditions than the conditions of political party congresses, and they want the necessary conditions to be met. One of the two names who have been rendered incapable of performing their profession for a long time is trying to make a living by working as a marketer and as a motorcycle courier

Articles-Interviews 1 June 2022

The musicians are speaking (II): “It will take time to get back to former state”

The coronavirus pandemic continues to build a wall of “pandemic measures” against the performing arts in Turkey as well. Many musicians have not been able to take the stage since March 2020, and the halls cannot open their doors. Festivals experience online organizations, but it is not known when the concerts, which are the main source of income of the industry, will start. In the second part of our article series, we talk to the organizer, manager and operator Serkan Fidan about the reasons, consequences of this picture and what it points to

Articles-Interviews 1 June 2022

The musicians are speaking (I): “Thousands of people were left to their own fate”

Solidarity helps to survive this difficult period of pandemics when the authorities do not produce radical solutions, musicians cannot come together and efforts of professional organizations were appeared to be insufficient. Musician Mavi along with her colleagues can’t stand this course and tries to bring musicians who are having a hard time and establish a network of solidarity. Ahmet Mustafa Sözmen is a musician who plays in rock bands in Mersin and draws attention to the problems in the music scene. We start our series by building a bridge from Bodrum to Mersin…

Cases 21 May 2020

TMA reports: process is not managed transparently!

In a report on the second month of the coronavirus pandemic in Turkey, The Turkish Medical Association (TMA) underlines that the true impact of the pandemic cannot be assessed as the entire process has not been managed transparently