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The singles Punk Rock and Salak are both in the same style, more roughly than most groups in Anatolian Pop (/Rock) style ; most related in style might be Grup Bunalim.

"Salak" (or MP3 :  Salak) might have inspiration of some Black Sabbath melody ?
(SÖZ:TÜLAY AKDENİZ,MÜZİK:TÜNAY AKDENİZ,ARJ:TÜNAY VE KENAN)
Also B-side "Iste Askin Tarifi", is very good electric guitar dominated more heavy rock.
(SÖZ:ALİ DAVUT AKDENİZ,MÜZİK:TÜNAY AKDENİZ,ARJ:TÜNAY VE KENAN)

Their other single "Mesela Mesele" is not as brilliant, but still very interesting for it's B-side electric wahwah guitar. The description "Punk Rock" on the cover might work a bit confusing. It is not really garage or early punk, but it has indeed a rougher rock edge.

About single "Punk Rock" : "Mesela Mesele" / "Disi Denen Canli" (= "Let's Say a Problem" / "Creature Called Female") - is one of the rarest and powerful samples of Turkish punk - rock music. There were very few musicians that did this kind of music in Turkey. Grup Cigrisim and the early works of Mazhar-Fuat were the most succesful ones. Funny lyrics and hard rhythms."  Guner

Slippy Town description : "Four wild-ass tracks by Çigrisim, a fuzzed-out heavy trio circa 1970. Except for the Turkish lyrics, they could just as well be from, say, Holland or Michigan. Never mind, though, they offer up inspired distorto 'delica."

Now I have heard all singles. The are in fact all are worth tracing !! Grup Bunalim is very close in style and fits with them perfectly.

Soundfile of Salak at http://www.viyanaturk.com/ml_index.asp?seite=3&kategorie=1
Contact the group leader : tunayakdeniz2000@yahoo.com
Turkish webpage : http://www.geocities.com/eski45/tunay.html
& http://punkerland.netfirms.com/yazi/cigrisim.htm (don't go to linked webpage www.tunayakdeniz.cjb etc. there, it has a virus) & http://www.rocktuel.com/tunay/