Toygar Işıklı — Anlatamam

A theme from the Turkish melodrama Kara Sevda is back across the global charts today, appearing on 112 country and platform charts after a stretch of dormancy since mid-May. Işıklı composed the piece for the Kara Sevda original series soundtrack, released in October 2016 — a swelling, string-forward instrumental built for the show's romantic despair, and one of the composer's most-streamed pieces. Işıklı is among Turkey's most prolific screen composers, with scores for more than fifty films and series including Çukur and El Turco, per IMDb. The track's return follows a familiar pattern for his catalog: the Turkish-drama export circuit keeps these themes circulating internationally long after the episodes that made them, resurfacing wherever the dubbed series find new audiences.