[1] He is a very prominent painter in Turkey, mostly known for his ability to portray forms, perspective and colour in his artworks despite suffering from complete visual impairment, a condition he was born with.
[6] In 2004, he was the subject of a study of human perception, conducted by the psychologist John M. Kennedy[7] of University of Toronto.
In 2008 two researchers from Harvard, Amir Amedi[8] and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, tried to find more about neuroplasticity using Armağan as a study case.
Amedi, together (with Ehud Zohary) at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, found that the area is also activated in verbal memory tasks.
He has appeared several times on television and in the press in Turkey and has been on programs on Al Jazeera,[11] BBC and ZD.
Prior to the release of the S60, Volvo asked him to paint his interpretation of the then unreleased model as a promotional piece.
The Canadian non-profit charity organization World Blind Union (WBU) was the benefactor of the auction.