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About Turkish & Kurdish Folk Dances Turkish & Kurdish folk dances and folk music create one of our traditions which, for centuries, was the most effective means of national feelings and culture. As a geographical, historical and cultural phenomenon, our folk dances and our music work, emerging in a variety of forms and of very rich character in different regions, are considered to be a cultural treasure. The number of our folk dances performed and folk songs sung reaches almost ten thousand that are observed in weddings, gatherings, festivals, friendship meetings, association meetings, Seymenlik (performance of young men armed in national costume who take part in a wedding procession/ festivals) ceremonies, various seasonal recreations, holidays and in many other traditional activities. It is necessary to regard the Turkish folk music and folk dances always as a whole completing each other. Including a many small kinds, our main folk dances are Bar's (performed in East Anatolia), Halay's (in Anatolia&Mesopotamia), Zeybek's (on the Aegean coast), Hora's (cyclic dance), Horon's (round dance in North of Turkey) Samah's (folk dance of villager Alevis or Mevlevi dervish dances in Anatolia). Our folk dances, spread over all of these regions, have very rich figures and melody structures and they are in general, classified into woman dances, man dances, woman/man dances, one person dances, two people dances and group dances.
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