Turkish Pop
Turkish pop is pop music sung in Turkish, which blends Western pop production with the melodies, vocal ornaments and rhythms of Turkish music.
It began in the late 1950s with Turkish-language cover versions of imported styles, and singers such as Ajda Pekkan and Sezen Aksu later gave it a sound of its own. After losing ground to arabesque in the late 1980s, it came back strongly in the early 1990s, when private radio and television arrived. Singers often use the melodic turns of Turkish folk and classical music, and instruments such as darbuka or saz may sit beside synths and drum machines.
Artists it is known for: Sezen Aksu, Tarkan, Ajda Pekkan, Sertab Erener.
- Family
- Turkish
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Turkey, late 1950s
- Also called
- Türkçe pop
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,900 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have turkish pop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Turkish Pop artists
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Sezen AksuThe turkish pop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.