Upon being discharged from the military he built a ceramics workshop in Kurtuluş, İstanbul, at the current gallery building and used it as his studio between 1971 and 1976.

[8] In 1974 he went to New York City where he first worked at "Fire House Ceramics" and later at "Unicorn Gallery" in SoHo as an intern.

[9] Since then the gallery held more than two hundred and fifty exhibitions of important Turkish artists such as Burhan Doğançay, Mehmet Güleryüz, Nuri İyem, Edip Hakkı Köseoğlu, Fikret Mualla, Bedri Baykam, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Nejad Melih Devrim, Güngör Taner and Ömer Uluç.

[10] He also introduced Peter Halley, Hunt Slonem, John F. Simon JR. and Mark Kostabi to the Turkish art world.

His clients included Feyyaz Berker, Erol Aksoy, Ali Koçman, Aykut Hamzagil, Mustafa Taviloğlu, Halil Bezmen, Şakir Eczacıbaşı, Bülent Eczacıbaşı, Cengiz Çetindoğan, Barbaros-Sema Çağa and many others.