Roots to the Sounds

  • Firuze Karaoglu

If there was a tree, whose roots were grounded in Greece, but has grown its body and leaves in Turkey, which nationality would it have? Can two musicians from Izmir answer this question? An exchange of populations between two countries, which happened decades ago… Did it only result in deporting people from one side of the Aegean to the other? Or did it also transmit their cultures along the way? If you live in Izmir, or “Smyrni” as some would like call, you might find yourself thinking about such questions more often than others.