Safiye Ayla, born July 14, 1907, in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, was a Turkish classical music singer. Orphaned young, Ayla studied at the teacher college in Bursa before beginning musical education as a piano student under Mustafa Sunar. Ayla performed for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1932. Ayla collaborated with notable artists like Yesari Asım Arsoy, Hafız Ahmet Irsoy, Selahattin Pınar, Sadettin Kaynak, and Udi Nevres Bey, making over 500 recordings. Known for a versatile repertoire that included classical, modern, and popular music, Ayla showed songwriting talent with compositions like "Seninle doğan gündür bu gönül" and "Aşk yaprağına konarak koza öresim gelir". Ayla also played Queen Mimoza onstage in the play Alabanda (1942). Ayla passed away on January 14, 1998.
