Biography

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:

  • Istanbul, Sultanahmet Yerebatan Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Istanbul, Pendik Ramazanoğlu Mahmud Sami Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Istanbul, Büyükçekmece Zeynel Abidin Mosque, the entrance door calligraphy writings,
  • Istanbul, Fatih Karabaş Veli Mosque, some calligraphy writings,
  • Istanbul, Esenyurt Yeşil Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Istanbul, Bahçeşehir Hacı Kamil Demiröz Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Istanbul, Eyüp Şeyhülislam Mustafa Efendi Madrasa Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Istanbul, Güngören Merkez Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Istanbul, Başakşehir Hayrettin Atmaca Mosque dome calligraphy writing,
  • Istanbul, Gebze Recyclers Koop. Mosque dome calligraphy writing,
  • Istanbul, Beykoz Şeref Yıldız Mosque dome calligraphy writing,
  • Istanbul, Esenler Mimar Sinan Mosque dome calligraphy writing,
  • Istanbul, Beylikdüzü Hz. Ebubekir Mosque dome calligraphy writing,
  • Istanbul, Bağcılar Salih Kayıkçıoğlu Mosque dome calligraphy writing,
  • Istanbul, Bağcılar Hiranur Mosque dome calligraphy writing,
  • Istanbul, Sarıyer Maslak Miktat Ağaoğlu Mosque dome calligraphy writing,
  • Istanbul, Edirnekapı Ali Haydar Efendi Tomb calligraphy writings,
  • Istanbul, Zorlu Center Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Ordu, Örencik Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Sinop, Türkeli Merkez Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Mardin, Midyat, Çavuşlu Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Nurnberg Eyüp Sultan Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Gelnhausen Eyüp Sultan Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Stuttgart Quba Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Ahlen Ulu Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Dortmund Çağrı Vakfı Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Hemmingen Mevlana Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Karlstadt Fatih Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Hainburg Beyazit Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Bremerhaven Merkez Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Villingen-Schwenningen Selahaddin Eyyubi Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Duisburg-Hüttenheim Yeni Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Bullay Yeşil Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nebevi Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Aachen Yunus Emre Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Deggendorf Selimiye Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Berlin Al Firdaus Mosque dome calligraphy writing,
  • Germany, Lahr Ulu Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Kirchheimam Neckar Osmanlı Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Dormagen Süleymaniye Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Germany, Kirn Selimiye Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Azerbaijan, Ağsu Nuran Hatun Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Turkmenistan, Dashoguz Mosque dome calligraphy writing,
  • Belgium, Genk Fatih Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • France, Paris-Pontoise Sultan Ahmet Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • France, Montelimar Kültür Merkezi Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • France, Le Havre Fatih Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • France, Lyon Eyüp Sultan Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • France, Flers Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • France , La Cote Saint Andre Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • France, Albertville Fatih Merkez Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Swiss, Baar Fatih Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Netherlands, Den Haag Mimar Sinan Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Netherlands, Medemblik Fatih Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Netherlands, Veghel Selimiye Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Netherlands, Den Haag Ahi Evran Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Netherlands, Oudenbosch Barbaros Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Netherlands, Terborg Mimar Sinan Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Netherlands, Mijdrecht Hakyol Mosque calligraphy writings,
  • Netherlands, Doetinchem Merkez Mosque calligraphy writings.
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