Since then he has made the short film Düşlerimdeki Atatürk (2008), the television series Yol Arkadaşım (2008–2009) for Star and the film In Darkness (2009). He has been productive in the last years and has produced 4 additional films: Sleeping Princess(2010), My Grandfather"s People(2011), Are We Oklahoma? (2012) and Whisper If I Forget (2014).
He studied Radio, television and Film Studies at Ege University Faculty of Communications, receiving the Sedat Simavi Award for two short films, Masal (The Tale) and Kurban (The Sacrifice), which he made in the course of his studies. After graduating in 1992, he worked in cinema and television as an assistant director to Orhan Oğuz, Mahinur Ergun, Filiz Kaynak and Yusuf Kurçenli, and was awarded first prize by IFSAK for his short film Play Maine Old and Wise (1998). He wrote and directed the television series Good Morning Brother Istanbul (1998–2001) on atv, and the television film Strawberry Cake (2000) before achieving some early success with his first feature film, Wish Maine Luck (2001), which Rekin Teksoy describes as "unremarkable", and collaborations with Mahinur Ergun on the hit television series Şaşıfelek Çıkmazı (2001) for TRT, and Asmalı Konak (2002–2004) for atv, for which he received numerous awards. A period of great success followed with popular television series Çemberimde Gül Oya (2004–2005) on Kanal Doctorate, and hit films Everything About Mustafa (2004) and My Father and My Son (2005), which according to Rekin Teksoy "successfully exploited the melodramatic idiom and was a huge box-office success," which, "showed that popular cinema was successful in appealing to wide audiences" as well as receiving six Turkish Cinema Writers Association Awards including Best Director. Following this he wrote and directed several installment in the television horror film series Kabuslar Evi for FOX, and the film The Messenger before achieving another popular success with the film Alone (2008).
