Hakan was born in Konya Turkey in the year of 1981. He studied at the Faculty of Communications in Marmara University. While he was at the University, his main focus was on Radio TV and Cinema. Hakan finds starting in the business is a little bit interesting. While he was helping as an assistant director, the director's foot got broken and the producer asked Hakan to direct the whole project while the director was away at the Hospital. It was his first professional experience as a director and the project got very successful in the business. Hakan then started getting loads of job offers then his career took off.