Mehtap Demir HASRET ÇEKTİM Traditional Uyghur Song

Mehtap Demir was born in 1978 in Ardahan, Turkey and graduated from Istanbul Technical University State Conservatory. Then, she had her master’s degree in Musicology from Istanbul University and her PhD in Music Anthropology from Yeditepe University. Mehtap stayed in Israel for 6 months during her PhD and studied the emigration and interaction of the cross-border music.   In 2010, she took a major part in a musical documentary feature named My Sweet Canary, which then happened to be an international project