Muhlis Sabahattin Bey has composed lots of operettas and soundtracks between 1916 and 1940. He is known as the "King of the Turk Operetta"

He has composed alaturca style masterpieces such as, "Ayse (a private name for the girls)", and "Caresaz (Remedier)". In his operettas "Asaletmaab (nobility, this word was being used for the ambassadors)", and Mon Bey, Muhlis Sabahattin Bey took the European life style as the theme.

He always expressed the themes easily by staging the popular dances of the day. Dances like, Tango, Waltz, Waltz Boston, Charleston, and Foxtrot can always be found in his remains. They are all liked by the society and recorded onto the stone records.

Muhlis Sabahattin Bey is the composer of the first original Turk Tango which was composed between 1927 - 1928. The name of the song is Tango Turk, and it is instrumental. Being the leader of the Turkish Musicals, he also was the leader in writing the Turkish text for the dance music.

Many of the composer after him followed his leadership, and wrote Turkish text for the popular dances.