Never content with simply performing, he created Hubble Bubble Sound Bazaar, a legendary London club night that became one of the city’s most celebrated showcases for global music, bringing together musicians and audiences from every imaginable background. It eventually grew large enough to host its own stage at Glastonbury, becoming far more than a gig—it became a community.
As the music industry became increasingly driven by algorithms, branding, and commercial formulas, he stepped away. He returned to Turkey with his family to bring up his boys closer to nature and learn to become an international citizen.

In Bodrum he started organising carnivals and festivals while publishing a monthly arts magazine for eight years, helping to nurture a new generation of artists in the town that had first inspired him.
However the political uncertainty eventually brought his family back to his wife’s home town Manchester, where he joined them during the COVID and begin yet another chapter.

Manchester’s fiercely independent music scene inspired him for a new Oojami project and recently he released several new songs and started playing live again.

He relaunched Hubble Bubble Sound Bazaar as a platform celebrating Manchester’s cultural diversity through music and art.
His story as an athlete, activist, academic, teacher, festival organiser, publisher, musician has been a constant challenge. Every chapter seems disconnected until you realise they have always been driven by the same impulse: to challenge boundaries, build communities, and use culture as a meeting place.
For him, music was never simply entertainment. It was therapy. It was resistance. It was home to escape from the world that he struggled to fit into.