Famous Turkish actor becomes minimalist, moves to hotel

Famous Turkish actor becomes minimalist, moves to hotel

ISTANBUL
Famous Turkish actor becomes minimalist, moves to hotelFamous Turkish actor becomes minimalist, moves to hotel

Defending a minimalist lifestyle, famous Turkish actor Nejat İşler has started living in a hotel room in Istanbul, saying that “life has fit in a backpack.”

İşler, who was living in Bodrum, a world-renowned tourism hotspot in the southwestern province of Muğla, for over a decade, noted that he has currently moved to a hotel in Istanbul.

“All my belongings are packed in two boxes that are at a house of a friend. My house in Bodrum was like a warehouse; now I got rid of them all,” he said in an interview with a YouTube channel.

Highlighting that he has slowly adapted to minimalist living, İşler said: “Life has fit in a backpack finally. If I need something, I go out and buy it.”

When asked if he felt “safe” financially, the famous actor underlined, “I do not have too much luxury. Sometimes I go abroad for a holiday, that’s all.”

His statements became an inspiration for an article for daily Hürriyet columnist Doğan Hızlan, in which he listed celebrities who lived in hotel rooms.

“When I heard İşler’s words, I remembered those accommodating at hotels,” he wrote.

“Yahya Kemal Beyatlı [Turkish poet and author who died in 1958 at the age of 74] lived at Park Hotel,” he added.

Journalist İhsan Ada was another Turkish figure spending life in a hotel room. “My friend, Yüksel Gözen [actor] died in a hotel room,” Hızlan noted.

Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and Kofi Annan, former U.N. secretary-general, also spent a lifetime at hotels, according to Hızlan’s column published on Oct. 1 in daily Hürriyet.