ISTANBUL TALES
           “İstanbul always pin her name high up among the names of the most beautiful cities. Witnessing her green shade is disappearing as she is constantly being transformed into concrete makes me, as an Istanbuler living in the city for half a decade, nothing but feel deeply sorry.
Whenever you climb up any one of her seven hilltops in hope of watching her breath taking landscape, her silhouette squeezed by blocks of concrete that harbour just a piece of green is the city’s only landscape that you experience on a heavy contrast against the hundreds of magnificent buildings standing for centuries along with narrations, stories, epics that of and about her were told. Animals, our lovely friends, who color up our lives by shades and arouse humane feelings such as love, tender, mercy and sharing within us play the main part in The Serial of Istanbul Tales. The Serial consists of visual envisagements aiming simultaneously to entertain and provoke thoughts on environment via childish and peaceful imaginery fictions. Remarking the destruction of nature and expanding the awareness for preserverance of the environment are Istanbul Tales’ main purposes. Oil paint effect are applied to the photographs in order that they as well produce poetic and artistic influence as move emotions. Pomegranate that is observed in some pieces of the Serial symbolizes plentitude, power, beauty, fertility, sacred tree, kindness, instance of the beauty God created, the fruit of eden etc.  in mythology and various religions and cultures.”