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  • 78 references 38 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Turkish; learning German
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • PhD
  • PhD in public finance
  • From Aydın, Aydın, Türkiye
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About Me

- Lecturer in finance - banking - insurance department in Aydın at Adnan Menderes University since 2017

- Has a PhD degree in public finance about State-Culture-Art relations

- Traditional Turkish Music Student at Conservatory since 2025 September

- singing classical Turkish art music 🎵

- dancing traditional zeybek & latino and Tango 💃🏽

- love to discover historical, cultural, natural places

- have been 40 countries

- Done 4 times Erasmus (bachelor 🇩🇪, phD lithuania 🇱🇹, teaching staff in Poland 🇵🇱 and Portugal 🇵🇹)

- done 2 times Erasmus+

- done short term Evs in Romania 🇷🇴

- love to learn not only even one more new thing in every new day but also teach and share them ❤️

- do not like postpone beauties.. (Please read Don Herold’s poem "moments”)

- Social entrepreneur (founder of
www.instagram.com/uretkazancom) - (marketplace for just women producer)

Here is my social website:

Instagram: www.instagram.com/kendimeyolculuklar

PHILOSOPHY

Conscious of nothingness where everyone is everything (Hîçlik Makamı)

Interests

Hiking
Camping
Singing
Dancing
Nature
Arts
Culture

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML81u-7WYF0 (While i m dancing traditional Turkish dancing which is called Zeybek)

2) https://youtu.be/eErJnVrqFJQ (while i m singing Classical Turkish Music)

Music, Movies, and Books

Musics:

Classical
Flamenko
Jazz
Fado

Books:

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

Art of loving - Ericc Fromm

Blindless + Seeing - Jose Saramago

Essays - Montaigne

What men live by? - Tolstoy

Notes to my own self - Marcus Aurelius

The country of white lilies - Grigory petrov

The praise of folly - Desiderius Erasmus

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

renting a car in Norway for 4 days and climbed trolltunga (22km) + preikestolen (10km) + kjerag (8km)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Lithuania, Romania, Turkey, Turkmenistan

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