in 2013, gülşen released her eighth studio album "beni durdursan mı?", which was downloaded 366,000 times on digital platforms and sold, 100,000 physical copies, becoming turkey's best-selling album of the year. she wrote all of the songs on the album by herself, and composed a number of them on her own and the others together with her boyfriend ozan çolakoğlu. çolakoğlu also did the arrangement for the album's songs. two of those songs, "yatcaz kalkcaz ordayım" and "kardan adam", ranked first on türkçe top 20 for weeks. in february 2014, it was reported that gülşen was working on a new studio album, and that it would be released in summer 2015. in the same month, "bugün" wrote that due to writing and composing songs for her colleagues she had postponed the album's release date. in april, gülşen released the single "i̇ltimas", featuring murat boz. she also performed the song "namus" on ozan doğulu's 2014 album "130 bpm moderato" and the song "emrin olur" on the album "kayahan en i̇yileri no.1" (2015).