I was raised in Germany until I was 13, and then my family decided to go back to Turkey. It was good in a way, because I studied music. And I went to a Turkish classical music school and studied music for three years. And then I just realized that I can't do anything else but singing music. And everything just happened naturally.
"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)