The bağlama or saz is a long-necked fretted lute used in the folk music of Turkey and neighbouring regions of the Balkans, Middle East and Central Asia. It belongs to the wider family of long-necked l
Different sizes of bağlama: Cura (left, smallest) and Çöğür bağlaması/Tambura Bağlaması (right, middle sized)
Asik Veysel was a bağlama virtuoso, and the prominent representative of the Anatolian ashik tradition in the 20th century.
Erdinç Ecevit Yıldız from the band Altın Gün performs with an electric bağlama.
Fatih Güngör known professionally as Fatih Kısaparmak, is a Turkish folk music artist, songwriter, composer, poet, musician, television presenter, and baglama virtuoso.