Timur Selcuk (born 2 July 1946, Istanbul) is a renowned Turkish pop music singer, pianist, conductor and composer.

Idil Biret (born 21 November 1941 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish concert pianist, renowned for her outstanding interpretations of the Romantic repertoire.Biret began her lessons at the age of five with Mithat Fenmen, who had studied under Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot. When she was seven, the Turkish parliament passed a special law which enabled her to study abroad, studying at the Paris Conservatory in France under the tutelage of Nadia Boulanger.

Kayahan (March 29, 1949) is a Turkish pop singer and composer, one of the consistently best-selling musicians in Turkey. He writes all of his own material and has released more than eight best-selling albums during a career spanning 30 years.

Iki Genc Kiz ("Two young girls") is a 2005 Turkish film starring Vildan Atasever, Hulya Avsar and Feride Cetin, and based on the bestselling novel İki Genç Kizin Romani ("Story of two young girls").

3 Dev Adam (translated as Three Mighty Men but also known as Turkish Spider-Man vs. Captain Turkish America) is an infamous low-budget Turkish movie starring the superheroes Captain America, Santo and Spider-Man as the main characters. Notably, Spider-Man is the villain of the film.

Asik Veysel Satiroglu (October 25, 1894 – March 21, 1973), also known as just Asik Veysel, was a Turkish minstrel and highly regarded poet of the Turkish folk literature. He was born in the Sivrialan village of the Sarkısla district, Sivas, on October 25, 1894 and died on March 21, 1973. He was an ashik, a poet, songwriter, and a bağlama and saz virtuoso, the prominent representative of the Anatolian ashik tradition in the 20th century. He was blind for the most of his lifetime. His songs have usually sad tunes, often talking about inevitability of death.

Erkan Ogur in the West (born 1954) is a Turkish musician. A pioneer of fretless guitars, he invented the first fretless classical guitar in 1976.A composer, he has influenced many musicians with his compositions combining the sounds of Turkish folk music, classical music with the ancient traditional music. He has played many concerts all over the world. He is regarded as a master of the kopuz and bağlama lutes.

Muslum Gurses is a Turkish folk singer.

Murat Ses (Ses means sound in Turkish) is a Turkish keyboard player and composer with strong Eurasian electronic elements. He is creator of the Anadolu Pop style, a synthesis of Anatolian music and Western elements that has been influencing Turkish Music scene for decades.

Ferzan Ozpetek (b. February 3, 1959, Turkey) is a Turkish screenwriter and film director who currently resides in Italy.