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She born in a musical family. When she was three, she started to study piano. In addition to her primary school classes, in 1990 at the age of 5 years old, she was accepted at the 'Istanbul University Conservatory' piano department. In 1996 she started the Istanbul Technical University Turkish Music State Conservatory. She was selected to “Istanbul Kemençesi" (the Classical Kemençe / Lyra) and she has played Classical Kemençe since the age of 11 years old. During her secondary education, she gave a lot of concerts in school and various concert halls primarily in Istanbul. In 2003, she started the Composition Department at ITU Turkish Music State Conservatory. Furthermore, in 2005, she started as a Kemençe player at TRT Turkish Music Young Ensemble. Moreover, she was qualified to go to Estonia with the Erasmus Program in 2008. She studied a semester at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. While she was there, she gave some conferences about Turkish Music and concert. After she graduated from I.T.U. Turkish Music State Conservatory, she started to teach in the same university. In 2009 she started a Master degree at the Istanbul University Conservatory at the composition department and graduated with a thesis in 'Film Music and Differences in Interpretation'. Currently, she is a Ph.D. (Proficiency in Art) student in the same department since 2013. Also she has been a Research Assistant and a Kemence player in the Turkish Music Orchestra of the same Conservatory since 2012. Besides, since she attended the Conservatory, she has given many concerts. Sometimes she was a solist, sometimes she played the classical Kemençe in a band. She has given innumerable concerts at universities and important concert halls in Turkey and abroad in countries like the USA, The Netherlands, Tunisia, France, Belgium and Georgia. She played with Andre Rieu 3 concerts in 'Andre Rieu World Tour' concerts. In addition, she played in Romina Basso's last album. In 2016, her brother Baturay Yarkin and she established the world music group "Yarkin Duo" and they had many concerts in Istanbul and The Netherlands. In 2017 they have accepted to Silkroad Global Musician Workshop in Indianapolis and they played with an amazing musicians; such as Master Wu Man, Shane Shanahan, Bassam Saba, Guru Sandeep Das, Edward Perez, Mike Block. Also she is a member of 'Music for Peace' project for which they gave concerts in Istanbul and Batumi. Her concerts and compositions still continue and she is currently writing her Ph.D. thesis on 'Concerto Grosso for Turkish Traditional Instruments and Orchestra' whereby she is also composing new pieces of music related to this subject.