She was born in Belgium, in a little town located on the North Sea coast. It was in 1956, the year the birth control pill was commercialized for the first time... But when asked for her origins, she answers „I’m from planet Earth“...

Her parents owned a restaurant and wanted her to become a cook. But a guardian angel disguised as a teacher, convinced her parents to let her attend what in those years was the most difficult course of school instruction in Belgium: the Latin-Greek section. At the age of sixteen the results of a series of routine school and psychological tests characterized her as „not being capable of coping with change and experiencing serious adaptation difficulties“.  But her later life story proved it to be just the opposite. Though she never attended any German language course, she went off to Austria where she started studying Turkish Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Graz. Her career was marked by entirely different professional switches every 5 years allowing her to find a job anywhere on the globe...

One day she ended up in Turkey, where she discovered the tremendously rich heritage of thousands of years of culture and various civilizations. It was the time of trying to understand a different society, to mingle with new values, to get married and have children and ... to get separated (especially from her abducted son) ... years of great loss and unspeakable pain...

Then followed the need to pull herself together and to try to get readapted to the Western world. These efforts were rewarded with an interesting and rich professional life, a second son and – once again – drawing the balance of life resulting into her (definite) return to Turkey. After a couple of difficult years, she found peace in the little town of Karaburun, located on the Turkish Aegean coast, where she came to rest in the mid of a yet unspoiled nature (given that no natural disaster disturbs it). It was also there that she met Mete, another victim of life and with whom she got married, sharing all the good things they had been able to save from the hardship...

When talking about her love for Karaburun she says: "According to the immigrants, your home country is there where you earn your living and where your children go to school." I would like to add an extra dimension to describe my love for Karaburun: "Your home country is there where you would like to be buried when your time on earth will have expired...“