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He was born in Ankara and graduated from Çankaya Elementary School in 1975, followed by Galatasaray High School in 1983. He is an adjunct instructor at Boğaziçi University currently in Film and Media Studies Institute and also Fine Arts Department, formerly in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Western Languages and Literatures Department.

He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the same university (1989) and received an M.B.A. degree in Finance and International Relations at San Francisco State University, CA, U.S.A. Subsequently, during the next couple of decades, he earned a living in San Francisco, working as a management and financial systems consultant and project manager in the field of Information and Internet Technologies. He offered the same services in Turkey for more than a couple of decades under his own firm, DENOR Ltd.

Since 2010, he has been teaching five courses at Boğaziçi University: four comics courses--with all the content and pedagogical structure organized by himself--in comics history, theory, advanced readings and adaptations, as well as another course in ecological cinema. Each of these courses has three credits and are available to all students up to doctorate studies and foreign exchange students. Boğaziçi University is the first and only university in Turkey to offer collegiate level comics courses, recognizing comics as a legitimate and complex literature and visual narrative form based on art, as well as an ecological course in film, understanding and accepting the ecological crisis as a verity of existence on our planet.

He also designed and taught a course called “Conversations in English” (CiE©) where people gathered to discuss "everything" freely in English for spoken language practice; also, other comics courses for adults at “BÜMED” and “Bilgi-Education” and still offers several comics workshop courses in a variety of ventures.

He continues to offer that course called “Conversations in English” (CiE©) as a private lesson for more than a couple of decades since an ability of properly speaking English has become a necessity in the globalized world structures and businesses.

He was a member of “The School of Life” 's Istanbul branch, founded by Alain de Botton, where he served as core faculty and provided several lectures on many topics, encompassing matters of psychology.

He continues his trade in psychological therapy, physical fitness and injury recovery and management, wellness and healthy living fields at personal and corporate levels.

"To live as a human being is to exist within the conception of time that is unidirectional and linear; to remember is to abandon that linearity: whenever one recalls a piece of memory, that is, traces of instances lived by oneself, one literally “re-members” components of that timeline from those traces imprinted in the mind, eradicating the linearity of time and therefore enabling the construct in the "now" of the mind. Since this construct is made from traces of imprints and not appropriated from recorded data on a factual form, every time one is engaged in such endeavor, one only recreates a simile of the original experience, every time slightly different, always asymptotic to the verity of one's chronological lifeline. Those imprints are always stored in the memory--and recollected to “now--in the form of still photographs and never like a film strip; one only takes these somewhat blurred still images and put them on a juxtaposed sequence in the mind after which animates them like a film in order to tell a flowing story: No other form of expression than comics can create a more faithful mimesis --in form and in function-- to this property of human mind." Gazi Mehmet Emin Adanali