"Music without frontiers
By Ed Emery
For Londoners, Turkey is now no longer a mysterious presence at the edge of Europe but almost a familiar cultural identity. An audience at a Stoke Newington Green (north London) concert of the music group Nihavend had a chance to listen to Turkish and Ottoman music celebrating Istanbul one night when, outside in the streets of Stoke Newington (home to a large Turkish community), there was tension."
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