43 Turkish musician stubs

Ayşegül Abadan is a Turkish pianist.

Hamza Gül, better known by his stage name Allâme is a Turkish rapper and songwriter.

Can Atilla is a Turkish musician and composer of electronic, ethnic, orchestral and new age music. Graduated from Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory in 1990 with a BA degree in violin, he has composed several studio albums as well as numerous scores for films, plays and television series. Although his earlier works fall in the category of electronic music, starting from mid 2000s he started to compose in more traditional style and gained reputation with his epic Empire Pentalogy, which consists of 5 Ottoman-era themed albums that he produced during the years between 2005 and 2012. Can Atilla is widely regarded as a pioneer in Turkish electronic and new age music.

Gürer Aykal is a Turkish conductor and Adjunct Professor at Bilkent University. He has been the musical director and principal conductor of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra since 1999.

Alp Ekici, better known by his stage name Baneva, is a Turkish rapper and songwriter.

Rauf Yekta Bey was a Turkish musician, musicologist and writer on music.

Gökhan Birben is a Turkish singer and artist of Hamsheni descent.

Ali Rıfat Çağatay (1867–1935) was a Turkish composer, oud virtuoso and academic, who served as the founding president of the Türk Musikisi Ocağı and the long-term president of the Şark Musiki Cemiyeti.

Ali Ekber Çiçek was a Turkish folk musician.

Çağdaş Terzi, better known by his stage name Contra, is a Turkish rapper and songwriter. He began his musical career with a single named "Ölü". In 2017 he released another single named "Ters Yön", however its beat was the same as Aynur Aydın's single "Bi' Dakika" and the song was removed from all digital platforms, including YouTube. In 2019 he released his new single, titled "Zebani", in which he criticized journalist Yılmaz Özdil.

Akın Eldes is a prominent Turkish guitarist, who is best known for his work with Bulutsuzluk Özlemi between 1986–2000. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and played mandolin and flute as a child. Eldes started playing the guitar in high school. He played with the bands E-5, Painted Bird, Asım Can Gündüz, singer-songwriter Bülent Ortaçgil, bassist Gürol Ağırbaş, composer Melih Kibar and Çapkınlar among others prior to joining Bulutsuzluk Özlemi. Nowadays, he is playing with a Turkish rock band Pinhani.

Esin Engin was a Turkish musician, composer, arranger and film actor.

Turgay Erdener is a contemporary Turkish composer of classical music. He first studied mandolin then entered into the piano department at Ankara State Conservatory (ADK). He has taught composition at the conservatory since 1979. He is married to the Ankara State Opera and Ballet soloist soprano Selva Erdener who has premiered his song cycle Sen sen sen and Afife a ballet with songs based on the life of actress Afife Jale.

Fuat Ergin, is a Turkish rapper and songwriter.

Sercan İpekçioğlu, better known by his stage name Ezhel, is a Turkish rapper, singer and songwriter from Ankara whose music blends trap, hip-hop and reggae. His song "AYA" has been streamed more than 80 million times on Spotify. He has been given the title 'Freestyle King' by Hip Hop Life in Turkey.

Muvaffak "Maffy" Falay is a Turkish trumpeter.

Aka Gündüz was a Turkish poet, composer and politician. He is most notable for having composed the Ankara Marşı.

Yusuf Güney is a Turkish singer who currently lives in London. Together with Rafet El Roman, their song Aşk-ı Virane was the number one single for 16 weeks in the Turkish charts in 2008 and thus the most successful song of the year.

Burak Gürpınar is a Turkish drummer primarily known for his work with the influential Turkish rock band Kurban.

Haci Arif Bey (1831-1885) was a Circassian Turkish composer from Istanbul, most known for his compositions in the şarkı form, the most common secular form in Turkish classical music. He was a very prolific composer, who on some days, composed more than 6-7 songs. From his third wife Nigârnik Hanım he has 4 great grandchildren; Turkish Diplomat Reha Aytaman, Şira Arıkoğlu, Okşan Aytaman and Murat Aytaman.

Hakan Durmuş, better known by his stage name Killa Hakan, is a Turkish-German rapper and songwriter.

Sadettin Heper (1899–1980) was a composer of Turkish music considered as an important link to the world of Turkish Mevlevi music before the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. He was born in the Eyüp neighborhood of Istanbul as the son of Halit Efendi and Zehra Hanim. Until the religious venues where the Mevlevis practiced were closed in 1924 due to the prevailing secular ideology, he played the kudüm, a percussion instrument, in Mevlevi religious ceremonies. Later, he worked for the Istanbul Municipality Conservatory. He regularly performed on the kudüm drum at ceremonies commemorating Mevlana in Konya when the government lifted the restrictions for these occasions. He published a complete set of Mevlevi ayin, including translations from the original Persian texts into Turkish. He died in Eyüp.

Dou Kalender is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist from Istanbul/Turkey. He is known from being the frontman of Ethnical/Symphonic Death Metal band 'KHEPRA'. He has appeared in debut album 'Sons of Earth and Sky' and after the release, he took part at festivals with the band in Georgia, Hungary and Ukraine.

Victoria Kamhi de Rodrigo was a Turkish pianist of Sephardic Jewish heritage, and the wife of the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo.

Oğuzhan Eroğlu better known by his stage name Keişan, is a Turkish rapper and songwriter. He began his career when he was 16 as solo.

Elnara Nadir qizi Kerimova, also spelled Karimova is an Azerbaijani and Turkish conductor and chorus master.

Melih Kibar was a Turkish composer.

Emre Deniz, better known by his stage name Kodes, is a Turkish rapper and songwriter.

Bilge Kösebalaban is the vocalist and guitar player for Turkish Rock band Direc-t.

Aka Gündüz Kutbay, a leading Turkish ney player of the 1960s and 1970s, was known for his traditional sound, deep tones, and interest in jazz, Tibetan, Indian, and other world musics.

Leyla Pınar is a Turkish harpsichordist and musicologist. She is the founder and artistic director of the Istanbul Barok ensemble and the International Istanbul Baroque Music Festival, which she founded in 1994. Pınar also teaches in the Drama and Music Department of Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul.

Katip Şadi was a kemençe player from the Eastern Black Sea Region in Turkey. He was a "Görele-style" player and he was thought to be one of the best living kemençe players in the Black Sea Region.

Ercan Şahin is a Turkish folk musician.

Fuat Saka is a Turkish singer, songwriter, arranger, and guitarist.

Soner Sarıkabadayı is a Turkish pop music singer and songwriter.

Rüya Taner is a Turkish Cypriot pianist. She was born in Germany and settled in Ankara, Turkey, in the early 1980s, where she studied at the State Conservatory. Taner is acknowledged as one of the leading Turkish pianists of the contemporary generation.

Veriko Tchumburidze is a Georgian / Turkish classical violinist who won 1st prize at the 15th Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in 2016 at age of 20.

Sami Harun Tekin is a Turkish singer, musician, and poet. He is one of the founding members and the vocalist of the Turkish rock band Mor ve Ötesi.

Tevfik Kolaylı, better known by his pen name Neyzen Tevfik, was a Turkish poet, satirist, and neyzen. He was born in Bodrum and died in Istanbul. His name is occasionally misspelled as Neyzen Teyfik.

Birol Topaloğlu is a Turkish folk musician and activist of Laz ancestry.

Raif Özkan Uğur is a Turkish pop musician, member of the renowned band MFÖ and an actor.

Ersay Üner, is a Turkish pop music singer-songwriter. He became known in Turkey in 2000s by writing and composing songs for Demet Akalın.

Mert Yücel is a Turkish electronic music producer from Istanbul. At the age of 22, Yücel produced the first house music album released in Turkey. He his career singles have included; "Dreamer", released on US and UK labels including Baroque Records, Subversive Records, and Choo Choo Records. Yücel released a 2002 remix of DJ VIBE's track "So Get Up" featuring lyrics and vocals by the Californian songwriter/visual artist, Ithaka for. In 2007, he collaborated with Ithaka on another release entitled "Evolution" for Wiggle Records.