"Üsküdar'a Gider İken" (Kâtibim)

The song tells of a young woman caught in the rain on her way to Üsküdar, on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, and of her kâtip — the clerk she loves. It was widely sung in 19th-century Istanbul.

Safiye Ayla recorded it in 1934, a film of the same name was made in 1968, and in the 1950s Eartha Kitt introduced it to English-speaking audiences as "Uska Dara".

Versions of the melody exist among Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Bosniaks, Albanians, Arabs and others, and documentaries and studies present it as an example of the shared musical heritage of the Ottoman world.