CURRENT MISSION

Mexico, Central America and South America

ABOUT ME

I always find myself dreaming when I am listening a course in university, or reading a job related book or just going and coming from work. I guess I got an unsatisfying feeling that there should be more. First this led me reading novels, psychology books, watching movies, learning languages. But they were not enough. Something is missing. Hanging out with close friends is far better to enjoy life. However, I can easily feel myself confined. Then what? I put my effort on performing arts like theater. This may be the most adrenalin pumping action that I have ever made almost more than paragliding. It took three years getting me tired of stages but I should admit still a part of me wants to be there again. And then I did black and white photography to get close one more step my eternal love cinema. Seeing the world from a frame gave me a different perspective of reality which is meaningfully fun. I am one of these dreamers and perfectionists waiting to be fully prepared to make movie of my life. I did a couple of tries, documentaries, editing summer videos but still not there where I want to be. Travelling as an alternative activity to previous ones officially comes to my life with my Europe adventure at very late ages when I am 27. This experience changed me a lot and gave me new basis to consider what the bleep is going on. Seeing other places, getting to know new life forms and friends awakened new feelings in me “Ohh we are not alone in this space” :) and question myself who I am. I believe there is no any other activity like travelling that can make you interact with people and with your environment and above all with yourself. It is the best way and shortest way of educating yourself. By the way I am an electrical engineer who designed two electronic above prosthesis in four years long PhD. I suppose that in the end I got so bored that I found the way out again in travelling, this time to a mystique destination, Far East Asia. This was a kind of resurrection for me. One year ago I came to Los Angeles for a year as a visiting scientist running away from the cage of science. Well what I found is very ironic, a bigger and more sophisticated cage than I had. Well, time to run away! Right now I am dedicated to do travel of my travels, the longest travel I have ever done, travel Central and South America starting from Mexico ending in Brazil in six months. Wish me luck! It will be one hell of an experience.

PHILOSOPHY

First think what you want and then do what you have to do.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

A friend encouraged me.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A friend we met through couchsurfing showed us her neighbor city. This was the first time I realized couchsurfing is an useful invention. Later on, a friend of mine hosted people from all over the world and got hosted by others. Experiences of her made me decide to be a member. I have to have the honor of hosting a couchsurfer and likewise be a guest.

Interests

Travelling: even walking to my home from a different street excites me.
Art: Cinema which is the sevent wonder of arts casts spell over me. I like theatre as we are the natural players.
Photography: Seems to be child of cinema however father of it.
Literature, poem, music are the basic ones.
Sport: Football, volleyball, basketball, etc any game contains ball.
Cooking, hosting as much as my patience is enough.
I am a person who lives to eat.
Drinking alcohol, good music (rock is welcomed) and bar

• arts
• culture
• books
• literature
• theater
• performing arts
• photography
• documentaries
• acting
• environment
• cooking
• running
• walking
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• scuba diving
• sports
• basketball
• soccer
• volleyball
• paragliding
• engineering
• languages
• psychology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Close up, Star Wars, Godfather, Rumble Fish, One day and Eternity, Felicia's Journey, Heat, Matrix I, Total Recall, Bornova Bornova, Mayis Sikintisi, Im Juli

Metallica, Ywegnie Malmsteen, Manowar, Baba Zula, Erkin Koray, Goksel Baktagir, Farid Farjad,

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Tim Robbins

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelling Europe by train in 21 days.
Travelling South East Asia in 42 days.
Learning Russian.
Paragliding, scuba diving.
Playing as an actor in a theatre play
Photo and movie production

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach:
Turkish style cooking
Black and white photography production
Languages

I would like to learn:
You and your culture
Any type of handwork
Cooking better.
Art.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Portugal, Turkey, United States

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