Composition: Achilleas Poulos & Erkan Oğur
Despoina Apostolidou (voice) – Adonis Ginosatis (saz)
Neden geldim Istanbul’a? / Why did I come to Istanbul?
Why did I come to Istanbul?
I got stuck and became a wanderer
Now I regret a thousand times
Time passed, what can I do?
Oh, oh
I wish I hadn’t come
I wish I hadn’t seen
Only you, flirty Istanbul
Oh, I wish I didn’t know
Istanbul’s winter sea
ships lined up one after the other
Don’t you have any mercy, any compassion?
Why did you make us sad?
Oh, oh
I wish I hadn’t come
I wish I hadn’t seen
Only you, flirty Istanbul
Oh, I wish I didn’t know
Based on the song written by Achilleas Poulos in 1926 “Why did i come to America?” Remake by Erkan Oğur in 1994