
Thereafter, the music of the National Anthem was changed to a composition written by Zeki Ungor, conductor of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra, and the words of the National Anthem have been sung to this musical composition ever since. The words of the National Anthem were sung to this music for eight years. The Council, which was only able to convene in 1924, due to the War of Liberation, adopted the music composed by Ali Rifat Cagatay. In the competition arranged f or the selection of a musical composition for the National Anthem, 24 composers participated. 724 poems were submitted to the competition organised for this March, and a poem written by the poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy was adopted unanimously by the Turkish Grand National Assembly. In honor of the 30th anniversary of “Never Gonna Give You Up,” here are a few of the best Rickrolls to date:ġ.The İstiklal Marşı (Independence March) was officially adopted as Turkey's National Anthem on March 12, 1921.


It’s that video that I’m in, it’s that song that’s mine, but it could have been anybody.”

The thing is it’s not personal to me, even though I know it is me and it’s my name in the title of Rickrolling. “I have no problem with it,” the singer told Rolling Stone in an interview last December, of “Rickrolling,” the practice of surprising someone with a clip of “Never Gonna Give You Up.” “It’s done me a lot of good, probably. I am a man of my word – Rick x /VmbMQA6tQBĪstley, who returned to the music scene last year with his album, 50, is best known today as the clean-cut English pop singer with the awkward dance moves, whose Number One hit from 1987 made a comeback as an Internet phenomenon around 2007.

“I am a man of my word – Rick x.”ģ0 years ago today I said I was Never Gonna Give You Up. “30 years ago today I said I was Never Gonna Give You Up,” he captioned a short clip of the now-infamous music video. (The Turkish community does not recognize this and instead uses the Turkish anthem for their self-proclaimed nation.) In 2004, as a requirement of joining the European Union, a peace plan was proposed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, which included different national symbols, to make them more inclusive of both communities. Rick Astley may have provoked yet another unending round of Rickrolling Thursday when he tweeted in honor of the 30-year anniversary of his hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
