He was an ethnic Armenian citizen of Turkey who spent most of his life in Turkey and wrote most of his lyrics in Turkish.
او یک شهروند ارمنی تابعه ترکیه بود که اکثر زندگی خود را در ترکیه گذراند و بیشتر اشعار وی را به ترکی ترجمه کرده‌اند.