Born in Tekirdag After graduating from Marmara University Department of Business Administration he completed his first masters degree on film at Rochester Institute of Technology in 2008 He worked at Greencard Pictures in New York for a while He directed Sephora and Rootsein webisodes He was the creative assistant of New York University Professor Marilyn Horowitz He is currently pursuing a masters degree in film at Columbia University He continues to work as a freelance advertising director His first feature project Yurt for which he was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab in 2019 and the Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Lab in 2020 had its world premiere at the 2023 Venice Film Festival IMDb mini bio by yusufpiskin