I am new to the Couchsurfing but I stayed with couchsurfers several times thanks to my veteran couchsurfer friend Tarık Selbes and met some of them during my travels. My experiences were very positive and I plan to use this account mainly for hosting. If there are multiple choices, I will prefer the people who have hosted someone before.
I am a freelance software developer mostly living in Çanakkale. At other times, in Kuşadasi or in Istanbul. Rest is hard to describe. I am not really active in social media but you can check my instagram account at https://www.instagram.com/arikan.canates/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I wanted to host someone before but the apartments I lived weren't suitable for hosting. Now I have a bigger apartment where I can host and still have my privacy.
My reasons: meeting people from different cultures, helping fellow travelers and changing my routine life a little bit.

Interests

• culture
• literature
• drinking
• politics
• technology
• movies
• video games
• hiking
• history
• philosophy
• science
• sightseeing
• nature
• cuisine
• tech
• software development

Music, Movies, and Books

Books from various genres: Classics like The Brothers Karamazov, Moby Dick, For Whom the Bell Tolls books from magical realism like Hundred Years of Solitude, Historical novels like The Name of the Rose or And Quiet Flows the Don, kafkaesque absurd novels like The Process, from Turkish literature Oğuz Atay, Sabahattin Ali and Yusuf Atılgan, science fiction like The Foundation from Asimov, Horror novels from H.P Lovecraft, Jack London, Comic books like Watchmen, Transmetropolitan or Conan series, fantasy novels like Lord of the Rings

Music: psychedelic rock, progressive rock, alternative rock, indy pop, ethnic gypsy bands, anatolian rock, blues, latin music, fusion, classic turkish music, sometimes metal and punk.

Movies and Series: many and various, bergman movies, spagetti westerns, tarantino, blade runner like science fiction, epic historical or fantasy, spy movies, neorealism, film noir etc. I made two imdb lists for myself, you can check them out:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls045037973/
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls045063119/

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

lived until now

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
How to cook some basic turkish food, local culture, lifestyle and history.
I can be helpful about anything related to programming if I have time.
I am interested in learning practically anything.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Showing around if I have time, my bicycle if I am not using it, tea/coffee, conversation and what is in the fridge.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Turkey