[1] In 1960 he graduated from the sculpture department of the Istanbul State Fine Arts Academy.
In 1968 he worked with Kirschner and Emilio Vedova at the Salzburg Summer Academy.
For some time later he was the president of the YOK council of Fine Arts Branches in Universities.
In 2012 he became a full time professor at the Department of Industrial Product Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Işık University.
Of these the awards that Başoğlu finds important are his Iskenderiye Biennale bronze medal and the İş Bank Sculpture Division Grand Prize.