KAAN BÜR

   
 
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bullet Jazz - Particularly interested in the works of contemporary guitar players such as Jim Hall, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, and John Scofield, as well as the bebop area and musicians like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
bullet Cinema - A follower of the European cinema. Especially watching Ken Loach, Lars von Trier, Carlos Saura, Milos Forman and Sergei Eisenstein movies. Fond of a few American directors such as Terry Gilliam, Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin.
bullet Science-Fiction - Reader of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert as well as writers of anti-utopian novels, such as George Orwell, Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip K. Dick and Aldous Huxley.
bullet Philately - Collecting Turkish stamps in chronological order since 1983, the collection going back to 1972. Owner of several other medium-size collections of German stamps spanning the period 1960-1980.