[2] His acting career began early at the Rutgers Cabaret, and since he has performed on several stages in the United States and Europe.
[3] In July 2009, his play The Report of My Death was performed on board a ship on the Hudson River, New York.
As a journalist he has reported about the trial of the Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, who circumvented the US sanction regime on Iran[5] and also in a similar case in which Halkbank, a Turkish state owned bank, is also accused of circumventing the US sanctions against Iran.
[6] The access to an article he wrote about a money courier of Reza Zarrab, was banned by a court in Istanbul on the 23 September 2020.
[8] He was accused by the Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah of being a complicit of the so-called terrorist organization FETÖ, the movement of Fethullah Gülen.