Date of Birth: July 8, 1985
Place of Birth: Kutahya, Turkey
How did you start playing: I started to play drums when I was at high school. My father used to play drums when he was at my age so I wanted to give it a try.
Musical Influences: Dream Theater, Rush, Yes, Symphony X, Porcupine Tree, Pain of Salvation, Death, Planet X, Yanni, Laço Tayfa, The Dave Weckl Band, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Yanni, Infected Mushroom, Ayreon, all the stuff from the 80's, Dennis Chambers, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
Drumming Idols: Mike Portnoy, Dave Weckl, Neil Peart, Volkan Oktem, Virgil Donati, Richard Christie, Omar Hakim
Musical Training: Mike Portnoy's Liquid Drum Theater. That video is just awesome!
Other projects: Dreamtone & Iris Mavraki's Neverland
Movies: Munich, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut, The Bourne Ultimatum, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Empire of the Sun, Alien, Infernal Affairs, Kagemusha, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 2001, Jaws, Godfather, Goodfellas, Dr Strangelove, Pirates of the Caribbean, Children of Men, Bram Stoker's Drakula, Cape Fear, Apocalypse Now, The Duellists, The Departed, Minority Report, A.I., Barry Lyndon, Lawrence of Arabia, The Last Temptation of Christ and many more.
Books: The Bourne Trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, Crimson Rivers, The Empire of the Wolves, Drizzt Books, Dune.
Hobbies: Going to the cinema(my biggest hobbie), collecting dvds and watching movies, practising drums, listening to music, drinking coffee(Starbucks Rulzz:)!!), whiskey:)
Links: www.imdb.com - www.spielbergfilms.com - www.rottentomatoes.com

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