born in 1959 in Zonguldak, at the Black Sea coast of Turkey.

Graduate of the German High School of Istanbul and the University of Istanbul in medicine. Lived in Vienna, Austria, and Mainz, Germany and worked as a general practitioner and coroner in an Anatolian village. Started his residency training in psychiatry at Bakirköy Hospital for Mental and Neurological Diseases in Istanbul where he worked with torture victims, children abusing volatile substances and pathological gamblers.

Psychoanalytical psychotherapy training in Los Angeles, residency training in psychiatry at New York University. Currently works as a psychiatrist in New York. Research on schizophrenia and work with AIDS patients.

His poetry, short fiction, essays and translations have been published in Turkish literary periodicals and anthologies since 1983. His poetry translations from Paul Auster and Ingeborg Bachmann are published as two books, Kaybolmalar (Disappearances) and Dar Zaman (Gestundete Zeit), respectively.

Works: New York'un Arabi (Nigger of New York), poems; 1998 Dünle Yarin Arasinda(Between Yesterday and Tomorrow), poems; 1990