ZONGULDAK · BASE CAMP
Far if you look, near if you walk..
Field notes, camp recipes, and quiet stories from someone who traded a desk for the horizon. Subscribe for the stories that don't fit in a sixty-second reel.
I traded a desk for the horizon — and never once asked for it back.
For ten years I was a civil servant. A safe paycheck. A predictable arc. At thirty-three, I gave it all up to chase the only currency that ever felt real to me: stories worth telling.
Since then I've slept beside Yörük campfires in the Taurus mountains, argued politics over rice in Vietnamese kitchens, and watched dawn break over snowy passes with strangers who became friends in eight time zones.
This site is the long-form home for that work — the stories, the films, the field guides. Everything that doesn't survive the algorithm.
Ben Dağın Aslanıyım — Yörükler.
The Subject
The Yörük nomads — the last keepers of a pre-modern Anatolian rhythm.
The Question
What is gained, and what is lost, when a people stop moving?
The Format
A 24-minute portrait shot over six weeks, in their language.
A decade of stillness, three years of motion.
The longer story.
Videos Soon
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To the roof of the world — Everest, on foot.
Weeks on the trail, then the summit of Everest — Türkiye's stories carried to the top of the world. The full films from Nepal land here soon.
Field Guide
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The Caucasus, by tent — a ten-day camping route through Svaneti.
Long Read
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Two wheels, three monsoons, one busted carburetor.
Gear
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Everything I carried in 2025 — and what I'm leaving behind.
Field Note
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The most peculiar habit in Dhaka.
Twenty-eight chapters, and counting.
An ongoing index of every country that's shaped a story. Each one earned at ground level — no airport-and-out, no five-star tourism trail. The next chapter usually begins before the last one's edited.
Brands who back the journey.
Fueling every kilometer of the journey.
