He made his debut in 1963 with "Genç Kızlar" (Young Girls) opposite Hülya Koçyiğit.
One of his best known works is the short-novel, "Dry Summer" (Susuz Yaz), adapted by the film director Metin Erksan to cinema in 1964, starring Hülya Koçyiğit and Erol Taş, and which won the Golden Bear award in Berlin Film Festival that year.