Özel Türkbas has been played on NTS shows including Day Care, with Özel's Dance Routine first played on 18 December 2023.

Özel Türkbas was a huge talent and a huge star! After starting out as a child star (at the age of seven), in her native Turkey, she went on to play starring roles in fourteen Turkish movies. She was brought to the US by Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, in 1959, in order to appear in the role of La Oriental in his production of Opera Thais. She released five Belly Dance records. She also wrote and published two Belly Dancing books and a Turkish Cookbook.