Before starting an antique shop in his hometown, Culum worked as an IT consultant for some time in İzmir.

After retiring in 1998, he began to explore the history of Western Turkey and especially the Çeşme Peninsula.

Culum wrote the factually accurate history of his family in this book, not changing the names of characters and events.

The compilation of the stories to which he listened while in the region of Alaçatı was the theme of his second book, Alaçatili, which was published in June 2006.

The book's events center around a lawyer of Greek origin from New York City who seeks the roots of his family in Alaçatı, which was a Greek settlement for almost a century.