Biography tour guide

Hi, please allow me to say a few words about myself:

I was born in Ödemis-Izmir in 1963. I graduated from Kuleli Military High School in Istanbul, earned a degree in English Philology & Linguistics at the University of Istanbul in 1985, became an officer, and taught English as a second language for a while.

I began as a tourist guide in 1989 and have been working at it with great enthusiasm ever since.

I have held an elected position as the chairman of the Istanbul Tourist Guides Guild (IRO) since 2002, and was an executive board member of the World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations (WFTGA) for two terms, from 2003 to 2007.

While actively working as a tourist guide, I also write guidebooks, articles for travel magazines, and weekly columns on tourism for newspapers and websites.

My major guidebooks are a 560-page cultural guide to Turkey “Turkish Odyssey”, a 384-page quick guide to Istanbul “QG Istanbul” and pamphlets on Ephesus, Topkapi