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A LIFE DEDICATED TO ART, BEAUTY AND DESIGN… He was born in Ankara, on 2 May, 1951. He grew up in the historical and cultural ambience of Kaleiçi, in Ulus, one of the oldest quarters of Ankara. Kaleiçi-Ulus has so many remains beginning from the civilizations before Christ to the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Ottoman Empires and of course the first years of Turkish Republic and this historical environment undoubtedly played an important role in formation and development of his cultural and artistic point of view. He lived with art in every aspect of his life; painting, photography and music have always been indispensable for him. After graduating from Ulus Primary School and Anafartalar Secondary School he continued his education at Gazi High School. During high school years, he was interested in painting and photography. His paintings were appreciated by his art teachers Cemal Guvenc and Bahattin Akay. Although he hadn’t received any special training, he started to play musical instruments such as baglama, flute, some piano and accordion through his own talent for music. He began his university education in Mechanical Engineering Department at the Ankara State Academy of Architecture and Engineering in 1973. After graduating from university he worked for Turkish State Railways for two years, but he resigned, upon realizing that classical 8 to 5 working life and this mechanical life were not suitable for him. As he helped his father who was an antique dealer at Ulus during his childhood and adolescent periods, he realized that he was conversant with trade and antiques, so he opened an antique shop in Ulus. Due to his tendency to art, he took care to buy and sell unique and artistic pieces. In this period, he started to look over paintings in a different point of view and trade paintings beside antiques. During his business carrier he had the chance to investigate thousands of paintings. He majored in Turkish paintings. His firm, Ankara Antikacilik has been regularly organizing art and antiques auctions since 2008. He established ANKASANAT art gallery in 2013 and he has been organizing exhibitions as well as auctions. In recent years he has focused on photography. He aims to highlight design and fiction in photography. Instead of photographing objects as they are in the nature and seen by everyone, he prefers to photograph the objects as in he designs himself and with his own authentic point of view.