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Çağrı Denizer Çağrı DenizerCoffee Stories

Çağrı Denizer

At 5:30 AM, as Ankara streets stir in the pre-dawn hush, 20-year-old Çağrı Denizer flips the sign to “Open”. Most baristas groan at the early shift, but for Çağrı Denizer, it’s a sacred ritual—grinding beans, the scent of coffee rising like a quiet song. With five years shaping his craft…
IMNAB
July 8, 2025
Kerem Köksaldı Kerem-KöksaldıCoffee Stories

Kerem Köksaldı

Kerem Köksaldı’s journey into the world of coffee didn’t begin with grand ambitions, but with a simple moment of curiosity as a 15-year-old in Istanbul. Standing outside a boutique café, mesmerized by the espresso machine, he thought, “I should be a part of this bar.” That single thought marked the…
IMNAB
October 15, 2024
Ahmet Talha Selçuk Ahmet Talha Selçuk not a baristaCoffee Stories

Ahmet Talha Selçuk

Nestled along the shore of Southern Turkey, where the land curls away from the rough brine of the Mediterranean Sea, lies Antalya. Amid the hustle and bustle of its fast-growing present and the not-yet-faded vestiges of its still-visible past, lingers an air of timeless beauty one cannot help but admire. …
Riley Rogers
July 25, 2024
Mertkan Kılıçcı Mertkan Kılıçcı barista roaster TurkeyCoffee Stories

Mertkan Kılıçcı

Mertkan Kılıçcı's story is a journey of passion transcending the bounds of a typical career path. It begins in the classrooms of an engineering college in Turkey, where Mertkan, a student of mechanical engineering, grapples with a profession he respects but doesn't love. His true calling whispers to him not…
Sinan Genc
January 30, 2024
Emre Kalkan Coffee Stories

Emre Kalkan

Somewhere on the streets of Heidelberg, Germany, lies a one-of-a-kind contraption. Is it a kiosk? Is it a bicycle? Well, it’s both. This is the story of Emre Kalkan. The inventor of the the first environmentally friendly mobile coffee bike. Emre Kalkan Don’t let his sunglasses fool you; Emre Kalkan's…
Oluwatobifunmi Olaniran
March 20, 2023
Sinan Genc Coffee Stories

Sinan Genc

Sinan Genc’s career did not begin in coffee, rather, he was studying to become an electrical and electronics engineer with a PhD focusing on optical sensors to detect, classify and characterize microplastics in liquid media, when he found his passion for coffee.  Sinan Genc While working behind the scenes of…
Sarah Silvia
January 31, 2023
Süeda Emir Coffee Stories

Süeda Emir

Gastronomy is the study of food and culture, the skill of preparing and serving rich or delicate and attractive cuisine, regional cooking methods, and the science of excellent eating. How does this relate to coffee? This is  Süeda Emir’s coffee story. Süeda Emir is using Aeropress This is the story…
Oluwatobifunmi Olaniran
January 17, 2023
Kerem Helvacıoglu Kerem HelvacıogluCoffee Stories

Kerem Helvacıoglu

Kerem Helvacıoglu: half human and half coffee. One of our Coffee Wristbands’ designers, Nükhet Çubukçular, chose Kerem as one of the recipients of the profits from her design. This is Kerem Helvacıoglu's story. Kerem Helvacıoglu Kerem’s story begins with his grandmother, who he’s always admired as she worked behind the…
Nathierah Fredericks
September 12, 2022
Defne Ceyda Okay Coffee Stories

Defne Ceyda Okay

At first glance, seeing Defne Ceyda Okay in her black platform Chelsea boots and countless tattoos all over – you wouldn’t suppose that she once dreamt of becoming a ballerina. Perhaps it is exactly this early experience of hard, passionate practice that provided her with the power to become a…
Marta Trzcionka
April 24, 2022
Levent Öncü Levent OncuCoffee Stories

Levent Öncü

From aeronautical engineering to coffee social media creator, this is Levent Öncü’s story. We recently spoke to Levent Oncu on the I’M NOT A BARISTA Podcast. Levent began his story in Turkey as an aeronautical engineer and home barista. He has been brewing coffee since 2010, achieving his PhD and working…
Mollie Sprigg
April 13, 2022