She has studied English Language Teaching at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. After graduating in 1992, she started working for the Department of Documentary Programs at the Turkish public television, TRT. She worked for another 2 years as production assistant for the news program CNN World Report. She spent two years in Canada (1996-1998), doing her graduate study on Social Cultural Anthropology at the University of Toronto, specializing in Native Americans. Coming back to Turkey, she became permanent at TRT. She went to Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA in 2002 and completed a four-month “Ethnographic Films and Visual Anthropology” certificate program. Back at TRT, she started directing and producing wildlife films, which won many national and international awards. She retired in 2024 to continue her work as a freelance.