He started his literary career as a publisher and a writer of the bimonthly magazine Hayalet Gemi (Ghost Ship) in 1992.
Besides short stories, he has novels addressing modern masters Kafka,[2] Borges, Eco, Laurence Sterne, Fowles and Orhan Pamuk.
Besides being a writer, Gülsoy was also a professor Boğaziçi University's Institute of Biomedical Engineering.
[6] He headed the editorial board of Bogazici University Press and was the director of Bogazici University Nazım Hikmet Culture and Art Research Center.
[7] Some of his books have also been translated into Albanian, Arabic,[citation needed] Bulgarian, Chinese,[8] English, Macedonian and Romanian.