Özgür lives in Istanbul. He graduated from maritime school in 2002 as a deck officer. He has work experience with multinational crews on general cargo vessels, oil and chemical tankers. He came ashore and worked in the crewing department at a management company. After that he returned to sea and is still working on tankers.
His plan is to create a tanker crew committee and discuss knowledge and experiences in every topic. Meanwhile, he is helping to prepare reports about accidents shares lessons learned with a wide audience of people and hopes to later prepare a book for tanker officers.