A number of songs in these albums, including "Sevişmeden Uyumayalım", "Acısa da Öldürmez", "Kafa", "Boş Yere", "Vaziyetler", "Yabancı" and "Hediye", became number-one hits in Turkey.

In addition to her career as a singer, Sıla, who is famous as a songwriter and composer and has been praised by critics, has written almost all of her songs on her own together with Efe Bahadır.

In the mid 1990s, Şükrü Gençoğlu became a candidate for Denizli provincial presidency representing the True Path Party but he later resigned and left the competition.

She worked on her voice with Nükhet Ruacan and also met with musician Efe Bahadır, who made important contributions to her future albums.

In addition, Sıla's compositions and song lyrics were featured on the albums of many famous artists such as Ferhat Göçer, Kenan Doğulu and Emel Müftüoğlu.

People got familiar with her voice for the first time due to her collaboration with Sezen Aksu in the song "Sıla-Töre" for the TV series Sıla.

Sıla's second studio album, İmza, was released in 2009 and its lead single "Sevişmeden Uyumayalım" became a number-one hit in Turkey for three weeks.

In June 2010 Sıla was among the artists who were featured on Ozan Doğulu's album 130 Bpm and their song "Alain Delon" became a number-one hit in Turkey.

[9] In November 2010, Sıla's third studio album Konuşmadığımız Şeyler Var was released by Sony Music Entertainment and Columbia Records.

The album was on top of D&R's Best Sellers List for about a year,[10][11] and sold 100,000 copies in Turkey making Sıla the seventh best-selling artist in 2010.

[12] Güneri Cıvaoğlu, from Milliyet, praised the songs in the album pointing out "the French chanson and colors of Portuguese fado" in it.

[22] A two-disc album titled Yeni Ay was released in February 2014 by Sony Music Entertainment and Columbia Records, and on its first week it sold 70,000 copies in Turkey, becoming number one on D&R's Best Selling List.

[25][26] Yeni Ay also broke the record of sales on iTunes Store in Turkey, being the number-one best selling album for several months.

[38] Yavuz Hakan Tok of Milliyet Sanat described it as "one of the best albums of Sıla", pointing out her use of Arabic and Ottoman words in the lyrics of her songs.

[42][43] BirGün wrote that Sıla was targeted by reports published in Sabah due to the latter's close relationship with the Justice and Development Party.

[50] Mayk Şişman from Milliyet wrote that in this album Sıla was "more concerned with [establishing an] 'identity' rather than producing hits".

It consisted of three songs, for which Sıla worked with Umut Yaşar Sarıkaya, Efe Bahadır, İlker Bayraktar and Sezen Aksu.

[56] In January 2020, Sıla was featured in a new duet single titled "Yaralım" with acclaimed Turkish cult singer Nükhet Duru as a part of the latter's tribute album Hikayesi Var.