He was my mentor in a way — as a musician and as a businessman. He came to Turkey once and saw me on stage performing, and then he came up to me and said, "You've got to call me." I said, I would love to. And that was the first thing I did when I came to New York. Then we did an agreement, a deal, with him for the English albums.

"Tarkan finds his moves take him across borders," CNN Worldbeat (August 09, 1999)

WorldBeat Interviews - Tarkan finds his moves take him across borders - CNN (August 9, 1999)