Hasan Saltık

Hasan Saltık
Born	1964 (age 52–53) Tunceli, Turkey
Genres	ethnic music, Turkish folk, Ottoman classical
Occupation(s)	record producer
Years active	1991–present
Labels	Kalan Müzik
Associated acts	(new) Grup Yorum, Yansımalar (reissues) Tanburi Cemil Bey
Website	Kalan.com (English)

Hasan Saltık (pronounced [hasan saɫtɯk]) or Hasan Saltik in the West (born 1964, Tunceli, Turkey) is a Turkish record producer. He is the 1991 founder of Kalan Müzik, a Turkish independent record label company based in Istanbul specialized in releasing Saltık's recordings of traditional ethnic and folk music from Turkey and vicinity, sometimes against governmental opposition.

In 2003, Saltık's work through Kalan made him a laureate of the international Prince Claus Awards on the theme "The survival and innovation of Crafts" for having "played a central role in the rescue, rediscovery and documentation of the cultural diversity of Turkish music". In 2004, he was called "The Anthropologist of Folk Music" by Time magazine.

In 1964, Hasan Saltık was born in Tunceli, a small town of Anatolia in southeast Turkey, of a Turkish father (from Turkmen roots) and a Kurdish-Zaza mother. At age 11, he moved with his family to Istanbul. He went to music school but had to drop out in order to take jobs, and at age 19, he went to sea. At age 24, he came back to Istanbul and worked in his uncle's music shop. In 1991 (age 27), he founded Kalan Müzik, and has operated it since.

In 1991 (age 27), he became a record producer and founded the independent record label Kalan Müzik, named after his natal town's pre-1936 name. Since then, he has been scouring Turkey and neighbouring regions to record traditional ethnic and folk music and release it on his label, along with reissues of classic 78 rpm records of Turkish and Ottoman music. He also publishes modern acts, such as the controversial Grup Yorum, or the popular Yansımalar.

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