Mehtap Demir (born 1978 in Ardahan) is a singer of Anatolian folk music from Turkey.
[1] During her doctoral studies, she moved to Israel for 6 months and studied the emigration and interaction of the cross-border music, of which the mizrahi music can be considered one of the most recent examples.
She participated in the French-Greek-Israeli-German documentary film My Sweet Canary in 2011, about the life of Jewish-Greek rebetikó singer Roza Eskenazi.
She is director of the Ethnomusicology and Folklore Department of the Istanbul University State Conservatory.
[5] In her most recent album, Le parfum d'asie mineure, she recorded traditional Anatolian songs that were found on rare records from the first decades of the 20th century.