NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Okay Temiz on 5 November 2024. Okay Temiz has been played over 60 times on NTS, first on 11 April 2015. Okay Temiz's music has been featured on 48 episodes.

Born in 1939, in Istanbul, Okay Temiz was deeply involved in music from his early years. He got his first musical inspirations from his mother, Naciye Temiz, who had gone through classical Turkish music education. Again with the support of his mother, he started taking percussion and tympani courses at the State Conservatoire of Classical Music in Ankara. Launching his professional musical career in 1955, Temiz…