İKRAMİ ÖZTURAN

Art director, producer, organizer, NGO manager, writer, civil engineer, presenter, art therapy specialist, painter, retired Staff Colonel (July 2014). He possesses extensive experience in management organization, planning and programming, project management, logistics, international relations/politics, and art direction.
As a member of the Turkish Armed Forces, he served in various capacities both domestically and internationally. He served for two years in Cyprus and a total of four years abroad at UN/NATO international headquarters (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belgium, USA). He worked for a total of seven years at UN/NATO Headquarters, including in Turkey.
He is a registered civil engineer with the Istanbul Chamber of Civil Engineers (TMMOB).
After retiring from the Turkish Armed Forces, he worked at a media holding company as a film company manager, screenwriter, general coordinator of companies, and human resources director.
Subsequently, he entered the business world, founding Damga Satellite, Radio/TV Services and Organization Ltd. He became the Turkish representative for the Astra satellite and provided broadcasting platform services to national and regional radio and TV stations.
After his business career, he transitioned to the culture/arts sector. In Istanbul, he founded the FAMİ Music and Art Association in 2025 and the NETA art Fine Arts Center in 2016. In 2023, he established the Sanatif Sahne, Sanatif Galeri, and Sanatif Yaklaşımlar art complex. Currently, he serves as the Founding Chairman of the Board of Directors of the FAMİ Music and Art Association (MSD) and the Founding Artistic Director of the Sanatif Yaklaşımlar Art Center in Istanbul.
Within the scope of FAMİ MSD’s music activities, he directs the Istanbul Classical Music Choir, which he founded and is conducted by Bekir Ünlüataer; the Gaziantep Classical Music Choir and the Tango Alla Turca Istanbul Choir, conducted by A. Kadri Rizeli; the Istanbul and Gaziantep Choirs, conducted by Nursaç Doğanışık; and the instrumentalists’ workshop and solfège-maqam-usul workshops under the direction of Dr. Bülent Eryiğit. He performs various concerts with his choirs in Istanbul, outside Istanbul, and abroad. He also directs painting courses and organizes exhibitions at the FAMİ MSD painting workshop under the direction of Rüzgar Fidan. Various exhibitions/workshops are organized at Sanatif Gallery. He directs various instrument courses at Sanatif Yaklaşımlar as part of music workshops. He organizes concerts, theater performances, and dance shows at Sanatif Stage (Sahne).
He has organized monthly art seminars on different topics (Art and the Future, Art and Freedom, etc.) with the participation of academic staff at the Prof. Dr. and Assoc. Dr. level and experts in their fields. He also organizes concerts, commemorations, celebrations, openings, etc. He hosts events.
He writes poetry/song lyrics and has two song lyrics and anthem lyrics that have been set to music. He has five published books: “FAREWELL” and “You Will Sleep Like a Pasha” published by Bilgi Publishing House, “The Needle” published by Galeati Publishing, “Student Mustafa” (Atatürk) published by Sözcü Bookstore, and “Composers’ Dead End” published by Vova Publishing. His book, “Student Mustafa,” was accepted by the TRNC Ministry of National Education as a book that can be recommended to students, and he gave lectures in 17 different middle and high schools.
He has written oratorio/theatre works, thematic musical production texts, and an eight-part television series script. He is currently working on the writing and publication of novels, screenplays, biographies, and other books. He is a member of the Turkish Association of Authors and Literary Works Owners (İLESAM), the Turkish Writers’ Union, and Turkish PEN. He was invited as a guest writer/poet to the Kazakhstan International Writers Conference in 2024 and the Book Fair in Egypt in January 2025.
He creates oil paintings, watercolors, and pastel works. In 2022, he held his first solo exhibition in Kadıköy/Istanbul titled “A Memory and Painting Exhibition of a Freedom Cause.” He has participated in over 30 national and international group exhibitions, including the Living Soldier Painters Exhibition.
He served as a national-certified referee for the Istanbul Region of the Basketball Federation between 1985 and 1993. By decision of the Turkish Grand National Assembly and the TRNC Parliament, he was the first person in the TRNC to officiate Presidential and Parliamentary matches with the title of “Foreign Referee”.