types and styles have been created by the people in various spheres and stages of life, joyful or sad, from birth to death. Ashiks (Turkish Minstrels), accompanying themselves on the saz, played the most important role in the development and spread of Turkish folk music. Musicias did not use accompaniment with saz, because Turkish Traditional Music was monophonic. Musicians played the same melody of a song but, when musicians hit the middle and upper strings (these strings must be played without touching keyboard of saz) polyphony was used. Turkish folk musicians ''Complete list: List of Turkish folk musicians. Abdurrahman Tarikci Ali Ekber Cicek Ali Fuat Aydın Ali Özütemiz Altın Gün Arif Sağ Aşık Feymani Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu Aşik Sümmani Aşik Reyhani Baba Zula Bedia Akartürk Belkis Akkale Brenna MacCrimmon Edip Akbayram Engin Nurşani Cem Duruöz Cengiz Özkan Edip Akbayram Efkan Şeşen Emre Saltık Erdal Erzincan Erkan Oğur Erol Parlak Feyzullah Çınar Gülay Gülcan Kaya Hacı Taşan Hale Gür Hasret Gültekin Hüseyin Turan Hüseyin Yaltırık İhsan Öztürk Güler Duman İsmail Özden İzzet Altınmeşe Kubilay Dökmetaş Lalezar Ensemble Mahzuni Şerif Mazlum Çimen Mehmet Demirtaş Mehmet Erenler Mehmet Özbek Melda Duygulu Meryem Şenocak Muharrem Temiz Musa Eroğlu Mustafa Özarslan Muzaffer Sarısözen Neşet Ertaş Muharrem Aslan Orhan Hakalmaz Özay Gönlüm Pınar Sağ Kubat Sabahat Akkiraz Selda Bağcan Sevcan Orhan Sümer Ezgü Sumru Ağıryürüyen Talip Özkan Tolga Çandar Udi Hrant Yavuz Bingöl Zeynep Başkan Zara Zülfü Livaneli See also List of anonymous Turkish folk songs Sources and external links Folk/Local Music at the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism website Musical instruments of Turkey — AllAboutTurkey.com TIKA music TURKISH FOLK MUSIC played by Hungarian musicians Turkish Folk music songs archive Listen to Turkish Folk Music References Turkish