Music of Turkey to be like the West. However, on the order of the founder of the republic, Atatürk, following his philosophy to take from the West but to remain Turkish in essence, a wide-scale classification and archiving of samples of Turkish folk music from around Anatolia was launched in 1924 and continued until 1953 to collect around 10,000 folk songs. Hungarian composer Béla Bartók visited Ankara and the south-eastern Turkey in 1936 within the context of these works. By 1976, Turkish classical music had undergone a renaissance and a state musical conservatory in Istanbul was founded to give classical musicians the same
Toumazou v. Republic of Turkey Kocinski, Pat Clarke and Suz Latchford who paid for but have never been given legal title to the villas that they purchased. The named defendants were HSBC Bank USA, N.A., HSBC Group, HSBC Holdings PLC, Mehmet Ali Talat, and TRNC. Turkey was dropped as defendant on 16 February 2010 and the lawsuit name was subsequently revised to "Toumazou et al v. Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus". On 30 September 2014, the court dismissed the case with prejudice for lack of jurisdiction. Toumazou v. Republic of Turkey Toumazou et al. v. Republic of Turkey et al., was a class action suit