Honours concert — third night of the SAYGI1 series
Ülker Sports Arena, Istanbul · February 27, 2025
Honours concert — third night of the SAYGI1 series
Ülker Sports Arena, Istanbul · February 27, 2025
Saygı is Turkish for respect. SAYGI1 — Babala TV and Sinerji Medya’s honours format — pays it while the artist is alive to receive it: peers take over the catalogue for a night, and the artist watches their own songbook come back at them from the room. The first night belonged to Ceza; the second to Sertab Erener. The third went to the thirty-year backbone of Turkish alternative rock: Mor ve Ötesi.
The night ran six hours, almost all of it played live. The lineup came from every corner of the map: generations of rock from Bulutsuzluk Özlemi to Son Feci Bisiklet; Sıla, Edis, Simge Sağın and Aleyna Tilki from pop; Birsen Tezer, Dilek Türkan and Nükhet Duru from other traditions; Madrigal, Adamlar, Dolu Kadehi Ters Tut, Nilipek, Batuhan Polat, Ece Dağıstan, Simge Pınar, Arem & Arman, Paptircem & Dilan Balkay from the new generation; Pitch Black Process from metal, Tolgahan Çoğulu from classical guitar. And Ceza — the series’ first honouree — came back to pay his own respect, joining Mor ve Ötesi on stage for a song.
This night cut deeper. For thirty years, Mor ve Ötesi’s songs have been written into the country’s recent memory — every song played that night was the marker of an era. The room didn’t listen to a catalogue; together, it looked back at a recent history it had memorised in Mor ve Ötesi’s voice.
We built the night’s moment. Behind the LED walls we hid a hundred-piece symphony orchestra and choir. When Mor ve Ötesi took the stage, the walls lifted — and the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra appeared. The night the room thought was a rock concert became something else in that second. The stage architecture was designed to serve it: a tiered angled roof, LED surfaces built to rise, and light worked into the lines of the structure itself.
A three-hour cut of the six-hour night went out on Babala TV’s YouTube channel and has passed 2.9 million views. SAYGI1 continues — and after three nights, the format’s claim is clear: genre doesn’t matter. Respect is something you can design.
Client Babala TV, Sinerji Medya
Event SAYGI1 | mor ve ötesi — third night of the series
Venue Ülker Sports Arena, Istanbul
Date February 27, 2025
Duration Six-hour live flow
Scope Creative direction · Production design · Stage architecture · Show flow
Orchestra Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra & choir — 100 musicians
Performers Bulutsuzluk Özlemi, Sıla, Edis, Simge Sağın, Aleyna Tilki, Birsen Tezer, Dilek Türkan, Nükhet Duru, Madrigal, Adamlar, Dolu Kadehi Ters Tut, Nilipek, Batuhan Polat, Ece Dağıstan, Simge Pınar, Arem & Arman, Paptircem & Dilan Balkay, Pitch Black Process, Son Feci Bisiklet, Tolgahan Çoğulu · Guest: Ceza
Reach 2.9M+ views — three-hour YouTube cut
