(in German) Amalia van Gent (2002). "Verbotene Klänge aus Anatolien". Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 3 August 2002: (translated from German) "Saltık's mother is a Kurdish-Zaza, as is the overwhelming majority of the residents of Tunceli. His father, however, is a member of a Turkmen tribe which centuries ago moved from the Iranian Khorasan to Anatolia."