This weekend the Turkish singer and bağlama virtuoso Arif Sağ was supposed to play at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Coming to Schiphol airport he didn’t even reach the capital. At the gate this leading figure in modern Turkish folk music (67 years old) had to wait too long due to strict admission policy for non-EU citizens. He was being interrogated for a long time. After consultations with the directors of the Turkey Now! Festival and the Turkish Ambassador he was finally allowed pass the border. But as offended as he was, Sağ decided he didn’t want to enter the Netherlands at all and flew back to Istanbul.