28 Turkish musicians

Ahmet Hisarlı, also known by the pen name Hisarlı Ahmet, was a Turkish ashik.

Mısırlı Ahmet is a Turkish virtuoso darbuka player.

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.

Batuhan Aydın is a Turkish composer, ethnomusicologist and virtuoso kaval player based in Istanbul, Turkey. He is noted for the fusion of Balkans folk and Turkish folk music with western jazz. Aydın's compositions include music from Turkish, Bulgarian and Balkans folk.

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

Can Bonomo is a Turkish singer of Jewish descent who represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Can Ozan is a Turkish musician and record producer. He performs acoustic and electronic music. He has collaborated with artists such as Deniz Tekin, Zeynep Bastık, Nova Norda, Damla Eker, Umut Döven and Sedef Sebüktekin on various music projects.

Kudsi Ergüner is a Turkish musician. He is considered a master of traditional Mevlevi Sufi music and is one of the best-known players of the Turkish ney flute.

İbrahim Gökçek was a musician of the Turkish revolutionary band Grup Yorum in which he played the bass guitar. He died on 7 May 2020 after a 323-day hunger strike, which he had ended two days before. He was married to Sultan Gökçek, who is also a member of Grup Yorum and detained in Silivri Prison.

Erdem Helvacioglu is an electronic musician from Turkey. He has collaborated with artists Mick Karn, Kevin Moore, John Wilson, Kazuya Ishigami, and Saadet Turkoz. In addition to his work as an electronic musician, Erdem also composes music for theatre, film and multimedia productions, and produces for popular and rock music bands in Turkey. He has received numerous international awards including prizes from the Luigi Russolo and Insulae Electronicae Electroacoustic Music Competitions.

Mircan Kaia is a singer, songwriter with a distinctive voice and an engineer from Turkey with her roots in Georgia who has produced several albums and directed and coordinated international engineering projects.

Arşak Yaşar Kurt is a Turkish-Armenian rock artist.

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.

Arif Mardin was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco and country. He worked at Atlantic Records for over 30 years, as producer, arranger, studio manager, and vice president, before moving to EMI and serving as vice president and general manager of Manhattan Records. His collaborations include working with Queen, the Bee Gees, Hall & Oates, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack, Bette Midler, Chaka Khan, Laura Nyro, Ringo Starr, Phil Collins, Daniel Rodriguez, and Norah Jones. Mardin was awarded eleven Grammy Awards.

No Land is a music group made up of Azeri, Iranian, Kurdish and Turkish musicians and named as No Land in reference to their coming from different cultures and geographies. It got its name from the movie No Man's Land at the suggestion of Sahand Lesani.

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.

Onur Sasmaz, commonly known by his stage name DJ Onur or DJ Sasmaz, is a Turkish DJ/producer. He is best known for the live performing. Starting out with techno and subsequently moving to hardstyle, they eventually worked in other EDM styles including progressive/electro house.

Niyazi Sayın, spelled Niyazi Sayin in the West, is a Turkish ney flautist and music educator. For a long time, he has performed duets with tanbur lute player Necdet Yaşar. He is regarded as the most important ney player in Turkish classical music.

Selim III was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807. Although regarded as an enlightened ruler, the Janissaries eventually deposed and imprisoned him, and placed his cousin Mustafa on the throne as Mustafa IV. Selim was subsequently killed by a group of assassins.

Hüsnü Şenlendirici is a Turkish musician. He comes from a family of musicians: his grandfather Hüsnü Şenlendirici played clarinet and trumpet, his other grandfather Otmar Köfteci used to play clarinet, and his father Ergün Şenlendirici played trumpet.

İlhan Şeşen is a Turkish musician and artist.

Hatice Deniz Tekin is a Turkish musician and songwriter. Her interest in music began at the age of 8, when she started to play piano and flute. She joined various local music groups during her secondary and high school years. At the age of 16, she began performing live music in small cafes. At the same time, she shared her own recordings under the nickname Daphead on various music platforms and made covers of known songs and attracted attention. In 2017, she released her first studio album Kozakuluçka.

Utku Ünal is a Turkish musician.

Necdet Yaşar was a Turkish tanbur lute player and teacher. A founding member of the Istanbul State Turkish Music Ensemble, he performed throughout the world as a cultural ambassador for Turkey and taught twice at the University of Washington (USA). In 1991, the Turkish government awarded him the title of "National Artist".

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.

Yüzyüzeyken Konuşuruz is a Turkish independent alternative rock band founded in May 2011 in Ankara by Engin Sevik and Kaan Boşnak.