Based Istanbul Talks with Mert Demir

I don’t have an intense ambition about winning or losing. I can either lose or win something the same way. Winning and losing are not very serious matters for me. It’s not something I care about.
I mean, for music, I don’t really care about winning or losing anything, it’s about music. I just feel successful with music whenever I can make music. I like to dream.

I don’t dream about music. It’s like dreams are things that you can’t control. That’s why I only have plans about music. I think the things that are in my power are not dreams but things that I can do by working and planning. It’s the same with music, it was just something I enjoyed a lot in my life, I continued to do it. I didn’t really do anything to become who I am, I just worked, as I said, but at the end of the day I look back and something happened. And yes, if you want to protect it, you have to pay attention to certain things, but I’m not that kind of person at all. I mean, I can’t live to protect something. I live as I feel in my heart. I’ll live the way I feel again. We’ll see if this will take it away from me, if it won’t, if it will strengthen it, we’ll see it together. Hang on a second, my phone’s ringing.

Cover Guest Mert Demir

Creative Direction by Duygu Bengi

Fashiıon Director Burak Sanuk

Directed by Melike Müge Şahin

Fashiıon Editor Murat Şentürk

DOP Ömer Rauf Aksoy

Hair and Make Up by Zeynep Dombaycıoğlu

Creative Production by BI Creative

Creative Team Belgin Demirhan, Birce Naz Köş, Şevval Küçüktır, Tunga Yankı Tan, Umutcan Öncü⁠

Gaffer Onur Karaca

Gaffer Assistants Ali Kılıç, Mustafa Çetinkaya, Ömer Eliş⁠

Video Editor Alican Özker⁠

Director Assistant Hasan Küçükyıldırım

Camera Assitant Tugay Özkan

Colorist Mesut Kesici

Mix Mastering Resul Keleş

Hair & Make Up Assistant Seda Civek

Set Design Assistants Yusuf Şengönül, Yavuz Selim Kalaycı, Sude Vural