Zeki Çağlar Namlı was born in Trabzon in 1981, and started to play baglama while he was in secondary school (he also studied at Ege School of Music). Namlı uses the technique of "selpe" and has a lot of compositions made by "selpe". He also performs the compositions of Sisto Feroli, Peter Finger, Franco Marone, Marco Pavin, and Gusseppe Consolmagno.