She will continue to be based in Istanbul, and report directly to Alfonso Perez-Soto, Warner Music\u2019s President of Emerging Markets, who took on the role in March 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00d6zye\u015filp\u0131nar has served as General Manager of Warner Music Turkey since 2020, working to support the domestic and international careers of artists such as Aleyna Tilki.<\/p>\n She and Perez-Soto were key facilitators in a deal that was struck<\/a> with Do\u011fan Music in 2020, which brought Edis G\u00f6rg\u00fcl\u00fc to the Warner Music roster in February 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tilki and G\u00f6rg\u00fcl\u00fc have 800,000 and 2.3 million monthly listeners respectively on Spotify alone.<\/p>\n \u00d6zye\u015filp\u0131nar has also been behind campaigns for Warner Music artists in Turkey with artists such as Ashnikko, Ava Max, Cardi B, Ckay, David Guetta, Dua Lipa and Masked Wolf.<\/p>\n \u00d6zye\u015filp\u0131nar began her industry in 2010, working as a Product Assistant for local independent label Pasaj Music, before moving to Sony Music as a Digital Marketing Manager.<\/p>\n She also built the digital music marketing agency Witch Brew Works, leading a team to create and roll out music marketing and digital account management services for international labels and artists.<\/p>\n \u201cUnifying a new region and taking on new responsibilities across the Eastern Mediterranean is a real privilege.”<\/p>\n G\u00fclce \u00d6zye\u015filp\u0131nar<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n G\u00fclce \u00d6zye\u015filp\u0131nar, said: \u201cUnifying a new region and taking on new responsibilities across the Eastern Mediterranean is a real privilege and full of opportunity.<\/p>\n “These countries have unique voices and potential, there\u2019s so much untapped talent to be discovered across our Emerging Markets network and this elevated role will enable me to take on this new challenge.<\/p>\n “We are proud to turn our Istanbul office into a headquarters for this region with unique legacy, we\u2019ll take this opportunity empower our artists and grow the market.\u201d<\/p>\n “I can\u2019t wait to see what [Perez-Soto] achieves across our new Eastern Mediterranean network.\u201d<\/p>\n Alfonso Perez-Soto<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Alfonso Perez-Soto, added: \u201cIt\u2019s with great pleasure that we can announce this well-deserved promotion for G\u00fclce.<\/p>\n “She\u2019s done a first-class job in breaking both our international artists locally and local acts internationally.<\/p>\n “In her expanded role, she\u2019ll be utilising her expertise to unify our marketing strategies and provide scale and integration in these untapped markets.<\/p>\n “I can\u2019t wait to see what she achieves across our new Eastern Mediterranean network.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00d6zye\u015filp\u0131nar will take on responsibility for marketing across Cyprus, Greece and Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":125147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-125060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-warner-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2021\/03\/Alfonso-Perez-Soto-courtesy-WMG--scaled-e1616497648264-80x45.jpg)
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