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I was born in June, 2nd, 1967 in Istanbul. I am graduated from the Saint Joseph French Highschool. I worked as the marketing manager in Latin languages in Net Holding, one of the leading groups in Turkey. Then I worked as marketing manager in R.J. Reynolds in Turkey. By the meantime I was also stuying in Marmara University International Relations Faculty. I speak English, French, Italian & Spanish. I lived in Marmaris between 1991 - 2000. I have an "A" classification tourism & yacht agency in Marmaris together with my father since 1995. , I have been racing on centerboards and yachts since 1975.

I had started to be interested in radios in 1987. Before getting my amateur radio licence I began to interested in CB's. Then after getting my licence in June 1994, I started to operate with amateur radios. My old call sign was TA4CEX. My wife Ozlem is also a radio amateur ... Her call sign is TB0YDC. Now I am living in Istanbul at Goztepe or on the Princess Island - Heybeliada and worked in my own organisation in tourism www.travel2turkey.org like a Managing Director . And...now I am the Product Manager of the biggest textile company of Turkiye ; Vakko, for the Vakko Cruise line.

*** Here you are some info about my island; Heybeliada ***

Heybeliada means "Saddle Bag Island" a name that was given to the island because of the shape of it's double-peaked hill. In ancient times it was known as Chalkitis or Chalki, from copper mines that are mentioned by Aristotle. Remains of them are still to be seen at Çam Limani ("Pine Harbor"), the circular bay on the southern side of the island.

In Ottoman times, the islands of this little archipelago were called Kiziladalar ("Red Islands") because of the red soil that is common to all of them. Most guidebooks refer to them as the Princes' Islands.

Heybeliada has two important schools of rather different sorts. The older used to be the principal Theological Seminary of the Greek Orthodox Church. It is housed in modern buildings among the remnants of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, founded during Byzantine times, at a spot in the saddle between the two summits of the northern hill. The other, the Turkish Naval College, was founded in 1773 by the Ottoman Sultan Selim III. It is mostly at the water's edge near the landing stage but also occupies the site of another Byzantine monastery on a hill to the west. Within the grounds of the naval college is a cemetery that contains the tomb of Edward Barton, the second English ambassador from Queen Elizabeth I to Constantinople. The tomb originally had a long inscription in (very bad) Latin and Barton's coat of arms.

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