Author: Grit Friedrich

rss-iconSubscribe to feed
The Turkish Oriental Dub Band "Baba Zula" (photo: Alper Etug)

The Turkish Oriental Dub Band "Baba Zula"

Music from the Fringes with a Rebellious Soul

The Turkish band Baba Zula ushered in a new style in Turkish music: oriental dub. The band with its rebellious spirit goes way back in the contemporary Turkish music scene. Grit Friedrich reportsMore

Fatih Akin's ''Crossing the Bridge'': Grunge, Punk and HipHop on the BosporusPortrait Burhan Öçal: Thracian All-RounderThe Multinational Project ''Music for the One God'': Harmonious Triad of Religions

In brief

More

Most Recent Photo Essay

Forced removals: it's estimated that 8,000 refugees live in Bihac. The camps are overcrowded and every day there is talk of burglaries. There was a stabbing in front of the kindergarten. Next to Camp Bira, there were about 500 people not registered with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). In mid-June police picked them up and drove them to a site called Vucjak

The inhumanity of Bosniaʹs Vucjak refugee camp

Within eyeshot of the Bosnian-Croatian border, thousands of refugees are camping in squalor on a former garbage site. Their supplies are scarce. Photographer Dirk Planert was among them