I like to see the details of life. I like to listen to the stories of "strangers" that I meet. I like to collect memories by travelling, photography and writing.
Living in Istanbul as a journalist; writing articles for travel-culture magazines. Also, I always try to travel to explore new cultures as much as possible.

My husband is an architect. We are an open-minded and gender-race-ethnicity blind couple. We want to have fun at every moment of our life :) Also we are very into cooking, cocktail making, road tripping and art. In our studio, we create paper sculptures for some projects. You can see more on: www.papieratelier.com

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Here is my Instagram:
http://instagram.com/photostorming
Here are my photos:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/denizyilmazakman/collections/72157671695232038/
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PHILOSOPHY

"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."
Christopher Mccandless

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to meet people during my travels. CS is one of the ways to enlarge the vision!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far, I have really good experiences here!

Interests

• arts
• writing
• architecture
• photography
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• camping
• sociology
• nature
• talking
• antropology
• analog photography
• making friends
• mixology
• local culture
• cocktail making

Music, Movies, and Books

All books of Orhan Pamuk. Also Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haruki Murakami, Charles Bukowski, Zülfü Livaneli...
Movies of Bertolucci, Ferzan Özpetek, Christophe Honore, and Paolo Sorrentino...
Songs of Yann Tiersen, Tony Gatlif, Mohsen Namjoo, Cesaria Evora...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My best experiences so far are to take a bamboo train into nature when in Cambodia, watch an amazing sunset in Santorini in a hidden spot without any tourist, talk to some random people on streets of Europe, New York and Southeast Asia, to see a beautiful sunrise with a full moon and sun in the sky at the same time at the eastern side of my country, to wake up in a tent among birds and squirrels, to try delicious cocktails all around the world...

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to share what I've experienced so far relate to my country or anywhere I travel. I want to listen to stories, learn more about cultures, local living and customs.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Turkey, United Kingdom