Greetings from Istanbul
Hello to everyone and welcome to Istanbul
I am 35 years old, I was born, grown up and live in Istanbul.
I am an honest reliable and humble person. I am curious, open to learning, researching, thinking, questioning, humanistic person. I am fond of art, such as history, geography, art history, architecture and cinema, literature, painting.
I am an outgoing person who likes to communicate, who finds it interesting to describe different cultures...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Istanbul is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and important cities in the world.
I would like to introduce the city that I live in that will come to explore Istanbul.
I live in Europe and I will honor me in introducing the historical cultural sites of the city and hosting my guests in my home.

Interests

Cinema history, directors, art history, painting, literature, classical music, archeology, nature sports, poetry, swimming ...

• books
• literature
• movies
• painting
• classical music
• art history
• astronomy
• geography
• nature
• dance
• ancient history
• cosmology
• cinematography
• sculpture
• astrophysics
• independent cinema
• world cinema

Music, Movies, and Books

I am a classical music enthusiast
* Some of my favorite composers : beethoven , bach , mozart , schumann , schubert, brahms , berlioz , wagner , haydn , handel , grieg , tchaikosvky , profokiev, satie , chopin , lizst , mussogursky , paganini , haydn ...

* Some of my favorite films :
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica,1948)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu,1953)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman,1966)
Andrei Roublev (Andrei Tarkovsky 1966)
Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson,1966)
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini,1963)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir,1939)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti,1963)
Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini,1953)
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini,1960)
Hiroshima, mon amour (Alain Resnais,1959)
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut,1959)
Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni,1966)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa,1950)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer,1955)
Nosferatu (F.W.Murnau,1922)
La Strada (Federico Fellini,1954)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais,1961)
Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini,1948)
Umberto D.(Vittorio De Sica,1952)
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa,1952)
The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky,1975)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman,1957)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman,1957)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci,1970)
Pierrot le fou (Jean Luc Godard,1965)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov,1968)
La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni,1961)
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog,1972)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky,1979)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson,1959)
Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti,1971)
El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky,1970)
Mephisto (Istvan Szabo 1981)
Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica,1988)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice,1973)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman,1962)
Ulyssess Gaze (Theo Angelopoulos,1995)
Farewell My Concubine (Kaige Chen,1993)
In the Mood for Love (Kar Wai Wong,2000)
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami,1997)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke,2009)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky,1983)
Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier,1996)
Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore,1989)
Underground (Emir Kusturica,1995)
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders,1987)
A City of Sadness (Hsiao-hsien Hou,1989)
Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang,1991)
Come and See (Elem Klimov,1985)
Satantango (Bela Tarr,1994)
Close-up (Abbas Kiarostami,1990)
Un Coeur en hiver (Claude Sautet,1992)
The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky,1986)
The Piano (Jane Campion,1993)

Some of my favorite directors :
Andrei Tarkovsky
Ingmar Bergman
Jean-Luc Godard
Stanley Kubrick
Robert Bresson
Alfred Hitchcock
Luis Bunuel
Jean Renoir
Orson Welles
Charlie Chaplin
Akira Kurosawa
Roberto Rossellini
Luchino Visconti
Michelangelo Antonioni
Yasujiro Ozu
Federico Fellini
Martin Scorsese
David Lynch
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Michael Haneke
Theo Angelopoulos
François Truffaut
Alain Resnais
John Huston
William Wyler
Bernardo Bertolucci

Teach, Learn, Share

First I can teach Turkish. I am a good teacher
I will teach the history of Istanbul and learn the history of your coun

What I Can Share with Hosts

I will share my sincerity, hospitality, knowledge, time, home, food with my guests.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey