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Overview

  • 23 references 18 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Turkish; learning Bosnian, Bulgarian, German
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • volunteer
  • mechanical engineering
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Selçuk was an engineer who left his professional career. Reduce his needs and preferred a sustainable lifestyle. He is a hard-loving person who adapts to every condition that doesn't care about comfort. He loves every aspect of art.
Selçuk volunteered for environmental organisations, initiated activist groups, worked for
environmental NGOs and campaigned for human rights and environmental issues for more than 7
years, in Europe and in his home country Turkey. He trained others to encourage them to support go
to nature, who had the same passions. Now he found an Assosiation of Back to Nature to support for
youth in education, art, nature conservation, sustainable lifestyle, culture and sports, as well as to
attract professionals in various fields for implementation of youth projects. He is interested in self
sufficieny, sustainablity and permaculture. He also organizing sustainable film festival for every year
to promote the issues on climate change and green living. In recent days, he has been organizing
activities with disabled people in nature and he has started to give this working experience with
disabled people to his team and participants. Selçuk is also full-time administrative and
communication coordinator of the Association of Back to Nature Youth and Sport Club.
Nowadays he is working in Doga as a see birds project officer for the nature conservation Bycatch project.

He believe that Nature is the greatest teacher, and artist.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like to meet new people and be involved in their lives.

Interests

Key words about my life:
rainbow, gatherings, magic, nature conservation, nature culture, permaculture, civil society, volunteering, mountaineering,outdoor sports, youth, projects, reading and writing, travelling, design,art...

  • writing
  • design
  • reading
  • traveling
  • outdoor activities
  • mountaineering
  • sports

Music, Movies, and Books

Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino films.
funk,rock,metal,soul,acid,ethnic,folk...
Bertrand Russel,Charles Bukowski,Masanobu Fukuoka, Henry David Thoreau, Jack London...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I lived alone at the mountain for 1,5 month just wtih the rocks on 3600 meter

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn playing aqua drum

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my love and everything that I have in my house. I have a house with a garden that is big enough to accommodate crowded groups, even though there's not much furniture in my house.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Lebanon, Turkey

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