Every story,
a new universe.

She was born in Bartın in 1986. There, she first encountered the patience of the sea, the silence of pine forests and the ancient stories rain tells the earth. Perhaps the first seed planted in her soul was a heart beating to the sound of a village river. Growing up in a small town leaves a depth within you. To make your voice heard there, you first learn to listen to yourself.

Her path led to Istanbul, where she completed a master’s degree in Political Science at Istanbul University. Those classes taught her more than the state, power and institutions; they taught her about people. She saw how power is distributed, how the unheard remain invisible and how societies carry their wounds. As her mind grew sharper, her heart grew gentler. True knowledge does not make a person arrogant; it makes them compassionate.

For years, she walked the corridors of public institutions. She worked at KOSGEB, in a public hospital and as a paid-by-the-hour teacher in Ministry of Education schools. Every document, classroom, patient and student whispered something to her: a person is more than a job. Some days she saw hope in a child’s eyes; on others, a patient’s quiet fear. She never thought of those years as a waiting room. They were preparation, renewal and a school of patience. Her inner life was doing work no one could see, like roots beneath the soil: quiet, yet deep.

Then came 2023. She stepped onto film sets as a producer at Gedikoğlu Yapım. There, in the warmth of the lights, the familiar hum of cameras and the shared chaos of bringing a story to life, she found herself. As a scene was being filmed, a door opened inside her. It was as though the answer she had sought for years stood in the middle of a film set. ‘I was born to do this,’ she thought. This was more than choosing a profession; it was a recognition. At last, she had found words for her sense of purpose.

That day, she understood that everything she had gathered through life—the melancholy of Bartın, the lessons of politics, the silence of the hospital and the hope of the classroom—had been telling the same story. She finally realised she was the one to tell it. She took the next step and founded Claros Films, becoming both its founder and producer. ‘Claros’ means clear, open and bright. Perhaps the name captured her own journey: from darkness to clarity. In her scripts, she sought depth within ordinary lives. She approached overlooked wounds, inequality and injustice with the wish to raise awareness and give them a voice. She sought meaning rather than spectacle. She knew a film could change a soul, and a soul could move a society. She never stopped developing herself, studying different subjects and opening new windows on the world. She learned, changed and learned again. To her, being human meant remaining a lifelong student.