Maltepe Municipality Prof. Dr. Türkan Saylan Cultural Center hosted Kardeş Türküler who celebrated their 25th year.
The works of Kardeş Türküler, which was founded in 1993 and expressed the hope of living together in brotherhood in a multicultural geography, were sung by hundreds of people all together filling the hall. Members of the group, who came out with white clothes on stage, expressed their happiness to meet with Maltepe music lovers in the 25th art year and thanked Maltepe Mayor Ali Kılıç for his hospitality.
In the concert, the group performed works in Turkish, Kurmanji, Armenian, Kırmancki, Arabic, Romeika (Black Sea Rum), Circassian and Bosnian. The group members who stated that the story of each song in the album was somehow linked to the way and said that "This way is the way to peace, where Kardeş Türküler advocated since the days of the founding and struggle for co-existence. As we know each other and learn to live with each other's differences, we will surely become a happier country, a happier society. It is an intercultural journey." In the concert, Neşet Ertaş was memorialized with his work "Ahirim Sensin (My end is You)" and Aşık Mahzuni Şerif with his "Darıldım Darıldım (I am cross I am cross)".