Onur Radyo

Onur Radyo is a specialist in Turkish classical music, a genre too often overlooked even in its home country. The station dives deep into Ottoman court traditions and modern Turkish art music. Expect intricate makam scales, improvisational taksim, and instruments like the ney, kanun, and oud. They play full compositions rather than snippets, a rarity in radio. Presenters are minimal. The music does the talking. For someone used to Western classical, this is a shift: fewer dynamics, more spiritual repetition. It works. You can listen to Onur Radyo online for hours and feel transported to anothe…