Music in Turkey -70s

The modern Turkish state was created in 1922 , and was immediately followed by a campaign to create a pan-Turkish cultural identity. This efforts has been only partiially successful, and regional varieties of music and other expression remain. Turkish classical music was the country's best-known music al export at the time, but was considered too Arab by Kemal Atatürk's government. He banned Arabic language music al films and promoted halk music , a generic term for multiple varieties of Anatolian folk music .