He was born in Kumkapı, İstanbul in 1960. He started at primary school İn Çağlayan. He moved to his home town in 1969 where is in east Turkey town called Altkoy. After having finished primary and secondary schools in his town than he came back to Istanbul In 1978, to continue his education and participated to the National Turkish Students Association (MTTB) for two years. Following the 1980 military coup, he did his military service in Nakkaştepe, Istanbul. After working as a substitute in a village in Refahiye, and then as a civil servant in a company affiliated with Sabancı Holding in Adana, he returned to İstanbul in 1987 and was involved in free accounting.
Thank to encourage of calligrapher Yusuf Sezer, he met Islamic calligraphy. He found the calligrapher Ali Rüştü Oran, who is student of the 20th century’s important calligrapher master Mustafa Halim Özyazıcı. He attended Hattat Ali Rüştü Oran’s Islamic calligraphy courses at Iskenderpaşa Mosque. Afterwards, on the advice of his teacher, he continued to study with calligrapher Ali Selçuk Erkurt in Çarşamba, Fatih. He has got his diploma (icazet) in these two scripts thuluth and naskh in 1990. Also he has benefited from calligrapher Ali Alparslan about "Talik" by continuing his course in the Suleymaniye Library.
He left the accounting business in 1990 in order to pursue his art in a Professional sense and opened a calligraphy workshop. He spent all his time on both his performance and spreading his art. In principle, he believed in the necessity of preserving the traditional structure of calligraphy and he didn’t give up his belief. He was against all kind of activities which give harm to the spirit of art.
He is a member of Turkey Works Owners Association of the Fine Arts (GESAM). He was awarded by Ministry of Culture and Tourism in the branch of Islamic calligraphy at the first and last competition he attended in 1997. As a result of the initiatives initiated to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, he lead the official recognition of the representatives of the traditional arts and helped them to be ownership of artist’s cards. He held many solo exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad and gave conferences about Islamic calligraphy. He represented his country in international and artistic programs. His articles have been published in various newspapers and magazines. He published a book titled “Ruhi Hendese / Hüsn-i Hat Sanatı” about Islamic calligraphy art and its education. He brought the thuluth and naskh works of Hasan Rıza Efendi, one of the great calligraphers of the 19th century, to the benefit of art lovers.
He taught calligraphy at the Kasımpaşa Classical Arts Center and also at Ataşehir Şehit Akın Sertçelik Anatolian Imam Hatip High School under the Ministry of Education-Public Education for a while.
She closed the calligraphy workshop she operated for 30 years and assumed the chairmanship of the Birlik Foundation Fine Arts Commission as of 2021.
While she still lectures at the Birlik Foundation, she continues her artistic activities with the aim and effort to represent the art of calligraphy in the best way possible.
Other than hundreds of his wall tablets adorning the walls of Friends of the Calligraphic Art, his artworks are:
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