The Song “The World Is Bigger Than Five” written by Turgay Evren gets a record number of views, likes and shares in the social media. All the major TV channels and news sites have made news on this song in Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of people from other countries have also listened to this meaningful song. Turgay Evren has written this song by being inspired by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s speech in the UN.
“My Beloved Turkey”, the song Turgay Evren has written about 15 July Foiled Coup Attempt has received over 600.000 views in Muzik Play Youtube channel. The song has been also shared by tens of thousands people in many different countries including the USA, Holland, Germany, and some muslim countries. Several news were also published in the media in Turkish, Arabic and English regarding the song.
Many politicians such as Ali Şahin Deputy Minister for EU Affairs, Talip Küçükcan, the Head of the Turkish Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , Melih Gökçek, the Mayor of Ankara, Aziz Babuşçu, the Deputy of AK Party have tweeted about the song. Some journalists such as Sevilay Yılman, Süleyman Özışık, Turan Kışlakçı, Murat Kelkitlioğlu have also shared the song with a comment in Twitter.
Some Civil Society Organizations such as ECTA, UETD, Müsiad America have also shared the song on their pages.
“Tell Me My Pretty Mother”, Turgay Evren’s new song tells the world about the suffering of African Mothers and the hope Turkey carries to the Dark Continent through its governmental and voluntary organizations such as Turkish Crescent, IHH, TİKA, Türkiye Diyanet Foundation and Turkish Airlines.
The song has been published on Mother’s Day and has been shared by thousands of people in the social media. The Turkish media has also made several news regarding this meaningful song and some TV channels have shared the clip with their audience.
The new song Turgay Evren has written and composed for the referandum, which will be held in Turkey on 16 April 2017, became one of the most popular referandum songs on Facebook, getting more than one hundred and fifty thousand views, thousands of likes, comments and shares just in one week. The song was shared by major AK Party social media pages and the media made news about it.
It is expected that this song called “Başkanlığa Evet” (Yes to the Presidential System) will receive at least one million views until the date of referandum.
Orhan Uzuner, Bilal Erdoğan’s father in law also listened to the song “Başkanlığa Evet” by Turgay Evren and he said that he loves the lyrics, melody and the clip of this song. Turgay Evren and Orhan Uzuner came together on one of the occasions of Kardeş Kal Türkiye founded by Orhan Uzuner.
Turgay Evren also told Orhan Uzuner about his new music projects and Orhan Uzuner brought him together with Cengiz Erdem, the CEO of Avrupa Müzik, a major music production company, which also represents Universal Music in Turkey.
Our song about Syrian refugee kids has become 3rd most voted song in the largest peace song contest of the world, getting 10106 votes, and has become one of the finalists among hundreds of songs. I have received a letter from Masterpeace, the organizer of the song contest, praising our song which was among the runner-ups saying the jury LOVED it. I feel proud that the jury which has received Grammy music award loved our song.
Masterpeace also invited us to collaborate in a series of concerts it will hold in many different countries of the world. I feel so happy and honoured that our song has achieved an international success and the journey for our song has just begun.
You can listen to top ten songs in the contest on the link below:
In May 2016 “World Humanitarian Summit” was held in Istanbul, Turkey and at the summit dinner “Today I will not die”, our song for Syrian refugee children, was played for 39 world leaders who participated in this occasion.
On 23rd April we were the guests of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Turkey, in the garden of the Presidential Palace (Külliye) where the children displayed their shows and talents. We have thanked Mr. Erdoğan for hosting and supporting three million Syrian refugees in Turkey, and helping our song about Syrian refugee kids to reach millions of listeners in Turkey and the world.
In the Meeting of Culture and Art organized by Cultural Communication Foundation and supported by Kızılay, students of 13 schools displayed their dances in front of 8000 people in Atatürk Spor Salonu in Ankara, and on this beautiful occasion, we have received Golden Children Music and Composition Prize with our song “Children of Heaven” dedicated to Syrian children of war.
A song written for Syrian child refugees, and all children of war. This song created to enhance hope, love, brotherhood, compassion and peace was played at the dinner of “World Humanitarian Summit” held in Istanbul in May 2016, and 39 world leaders have listened to it. The song music was employed in international donation campaign videos The Red Crescent (Kızılay) has made with several famous singers, and musicians to encourage people to support a project which aims to create “Mobile Child Friendly Space” for the kids of millions of refugees in Turkey. We hope we will be able to touch hearts and urge people to take action towards building a better world through this moving song which puts tears to eyes.
I would’t know it if one of our students did not inform me about it. Kızılay and number 1 TV have launched a fundraising campaign to create “mobile space for children” and many famous singers such as Gökhan Tepe, Hande Yener, Bengü, Hakan Peker, Keremcem, Erdem Kınay, Mehmet Erdem, Saide, Güliz Ayla, Elif Kaya and Aynur Aydın encourage their fans to support this campaign. When you listen to the music at the background carefully, you will see that it is the music of our song for Syrian children!! I feel honoured and happy to be a part of this campaign which aims to create special spaces where children of war can continue their education and improve their artistic skills getting involved in drawing, music, dance and other activities
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Republic of Turkey, has read the lyrics of the chorus part of the song, “Children of Heaven” written by Turgay Evren on the occasion of 23rd April in the Külliye, Presidential Palace where he hosted about 400 kids from 50 different countries of the world.
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