Beran Akdag with friend
Beran was born on the 17th of August, 1968, in Istanbul. He was a big-city child who grow up and studied in Istanbul where he later started his business career and established his own company. Beran believes that he received a good university education but he believes that during his teenage years his most significant influences and his most important education came from Tevfik Akdağ, his father. Beran’s father was a well educated and intellectual man and a famous poet who wrote four books. He wrote what are described in Turkish as “2nd New Poems.”
While he was attending high school at St. George’s Austrian (Sankt Georg Avusturya Lisesi) in Istanbul, Beran developed his life-long interest in sports. He had a special skill for table tennis and started winning trophies in both Istanbul and national championships. He experimented with and developed a love for music at age 16 and taught himself to play guitar. His music career began in 1987 and when he was only 19, he started playing professionally in Istanbul clubs. Since then he has never stopped making music as well as continuing to play table tennis, tennis and other sports.
Istanbul University
In 1996, Beran decided to establish his own Multimedia and Internet company, Yelkovan MultiMedia. It was the first multimedia and Internet company in Turkey. Originally, his company developed multimedia CD’s for companies for internal and other uses and then they started creating web sites. His customers included Nissan, Turkcell, Telsim and Garanti Bank to name just a few. Yelkovan became very successful and eventually there were 20 staff working for his company.
Beran Akdag underwater photo The Canyon
Beran dove for the first time in 1999 and earned his Open Water Diver certification that same year in Egypt. He says he was “really crazy” about Scuba Diving for many years and since 2000 he has freelanced in many different locations besides Turkey. Since that time he has made more then 1000 dives in many different countries such as Egypt, Thailand, Burma, Cuba, Venezuela, The Galapagos, and The Caribbean just to name a few. In 2006, he earned his Dive Master certification. He then started seasonal work as a freelance dive master in several diving schools in Kaş including Dragoman and Pasham. He then developed an interest in underwater photography. He later entered and won competitions in the digital underwater photography category. Some of his photos have been published in magazines and Internet sites.
Beran Akdag astrophoto
Beran is very interested in astronomy and astrophotography. He earned an amateur astronomy certification from Ege University and started giving astronomy lessons and courses in Kaş. He shoots astrophotos and sends some to prominent science magazines like Atlas, BBC Focus and others. He later established the astronomy club in Kaş and started giving courses in the subject. He conducted a three day “Star Party” at Eflauten Camp in Çukurbağ valley a few kilometres outside of Kaş. It was attended by ten Turkish enthusiasts of astronomy. Beran plans to do more of these in the future. He can do them for English speakers if a group can come together.
In 2006, after more than ten successful years, Beran decided to change his lifestyle, settle down in Kaş and work freelance. He believes that a person should do what he loves first and that whatever income that person needs will follow. He is someone who does something solely for enjoyment, not for payment. He is, in his words, an “amateur” which, according to The Free Dictionary, is a Latin source word, amtor, meaning “lover, devoted friend, devotee, enthusiastic pursuer of an objective,”
Beran Akdag traveller
Weblog: http://beranakdag.wordpress.com/.
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