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Overview

  • 12 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Kurdish, Turkish; learning English, Spanish
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • civil engineer
  • university
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

it goes on...

ABOUT ME

What do I want to happen?
I simply want our life here to become more human.
We need to return to those places to find much of what is still important and authentic to our lives.»
Theo Angelopoulos

PHILOSOPHY

sum up life in three words:life goes on....

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

just by chance:/!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i have good friends here

Interests

writing,traveling ,swimming,reading ,watching movies,play tennis playing bass guitar,ride bicycle ,and having time with my friends etc

  • arts
  • writing
  • theater
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • guitar
  • tennis
  • swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

modern jazz,smooth jazz,blues, classical music,ambient,ethnic music,
there are some bands and people i ussualy listen,Lars Danielsson, Renaud Garcia ,Erik Truffaz,Herbie Hancock,Avishai Cohen,Miles Davis,Edith Piaf,Norah Jones,Anuar Brahem,Bulent Ortacgil,J.S.Bach,Sergei Rachmaninoff,Balanescu Quartet,Beirut,Kinan Azmeh,Dave Brubeck,Yo-Yo-Ma,Zbigniew Preisner,Arvo Part,Tinariwen,Tamikrest,Erik Satie,Astor Piazolla,Azam Ali,Billie Holiday,Nina Simone,Portishead,Bandista, ,Eleni Karaindrou Buena Vista Social club, ......
BOOKS;hundreds but but i like poems,stories,sociological,and physiological books,movies drama , musical and sometimes comedy movies etc
directors: Akira Kurosava
Andrey Tarkovski,Pier Paolo passolini,Nuri Bilge Ceylan,ingmar Bergman,Bela Tarr,Robert Bresson,Krzysztof Kies›lowski,Aki Kaurismaki,
Theodoros Angelopoulos
.....................etc

Writers&poets i like:
Marcel Proust,Michel Foucault,Maurice Blanchot,Margaurite Duras,Friedrcih,Nikos Kazantzakis,
Nietzsche,J.D.Salinger,ivan Goncarov,Goethe,italo svevo,Oguz Atay,Tezer Ozlu,Bilge Karasu,Fyodor Dostoyevski,Milan Kundera,Franz Kafka,Sartre,Nazim Hikmet Ran,Charles Baudelaire,Paul Celan,Paul Eluard
Jorge Luis Borges,Turgut Uyar,Yannis Ritsos,Andre Breton,Louis Aragon

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i went to istanbul for art scholarship when i was 10 years old just by myself.

Teach, Learn, Share

if people have different experiences i like sharing my experiences,and i love people who is not boring while he/she is traviling ,going to theater ,cinema etc
i dont think so i have enough information to teach something to somebody.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Algeria, Turkey

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