"Saz is musical instrument of joy, sorrow for Turkish man in Jacksonville
* By Tonyaa Weathersbee
Mukhammad Tairov holds his saz, a stringed instrument that plays a vital role in Turkish music. Tairov, an Ahiska Turk who endured many years of Russian discrimination and mistreatment, now lives in Jacksonville.
JOHN PEMBERTON
Early in his life Mukhammad Tairov, an Ahiska Turk, discovered he needed more than food to strengthen himself against the forces of oppression; he needed music - the music that came from a three-stringed instrument known as the saz."
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