It turned out that Neyzen Mehmet Ferit Aktakka is the composer of the Samsak Döveci folk song, which has become popular all over Turkey.
The song Samsak Döveci, sung by singers Elif Buse Doğan and Serkan Çağrı, is popular on social media. Samsak Döveci, who circulated with the trend launched on the social media platform TikTok, received more than 1 million views, especially on YouTube. Mehmet Ferit Aktakka, the composer of Samsak Döveci, a folk song from the Tavsanli district of Kütahya, gave an interview with his grandson, who has the same name and is also a musician like him.
– Do you know by the verbal expression of your relatives, your grandfather’s relatives that Turkic belongs to your grandfather? 
– I would like to tell the true story of Turk’s emergence from the very beginning here and now put an end to the disinformation on this subject.
“In 1967-1968, Assistant Prof. Dr. Rahmi Oruç Güvenç listened and recorded the folk song from my grandfather Mehmet Ferit Aktakka. Let me quote the following with the expression of my dear Kanikey Güvenç: “My dear father Rahmi Oruç Güvenç and My dear uncle Yaşar Güvenç always read Samsak Döveci with love and sincerity at TÜMATA (Promoting and Researching Turkish Music) concerts and during his domestic and international travels, and made the audience love it. Every time they sang it, they remembered the composer of the piece, Neyzen Ferit Dede, with love and respect.” Oruç Güvenç played this song with local musicians (İbrahim Şirinoğlu, Ekrem Şakrak, Orhan Kasap) in the Tavşanlı Musical Society during their visit to his hometown, Tavşanlı. Our esteemed sound artist İbrahim Şirinoğlu also says, “I heard from the mouth of my Oruç brother personally that the work is your grandfather Ferit.” In 2007, the director of Tavşanlı, Ahmet Uluçay, began working on the script of his new movie, which he will shoot in the format of Making Ships from Watermelon Shells: Sea Shell in the Steppe. She asks our THM Artist, Emel Orhan, whom she thinks of, to reach Orhan Kasap and compile the folk song she wants to use in her movie.Emel Hanım, who compiled and brought to light many local folk songs from around Bursa and Kütahya, fulfills his request and compiles the song again. With Uluçay’s death in 2009, this project would not be realized.”
– Was the work copyrighted in the past? Is it anonymous? What needs to be done to clearly prove that the work belongs to your grandfather? Will you work for it?
– The work has no copyright, it is passed anonymously and anyone who wishes can perform it. I am now sure that Samsak Döveci belongs to my grandfather. However, we will not try to record the work on my grandfather and put copyright on this work. I also discussed this issue with my mother and my siblings, we are all of the same opinion; unethical… For us, even mentioning my grandfather’s name as ‘resource person’ is sufficient.