Rihanna comes to Turkey with 300 trucks

March 08 2013 12:11:34

Rihanna comes to Turkey with 300 trucks

ISTANBUL

Rihanna to take the stage at İnönü Stadium of Istanbul on May 30. AP photo

Turkey is getting ready to host pop superstar Rihanna for the sold-out, final concert to be given at Istanbul’s historic İnönü Stadium on May 30.

Rihanna kicks off her European tour in Belgium on May 26, according to daily Hürriyet, and the diva will come to Turkey accompanied by 200 trucks. There will be total of 2,000 people working on the concert, 600 of them security.

Rihanna, whose name has recently been in headlines for her tumultuous relationship and controversial world publicity tour, released her seventh studio album, “Unapologetic,” on Nov. 19, 2012 through Def Jam Records.

It was recorded over the course of five months during promotion of her sixth studio album, “Talk That Talk.” Recently, the singer took the prize of most-talked-about-celebrity on Twitter, with more than 1.6 million tweets sent mentioning her.

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