Hakan Arslan
He was born in 1985 in Kahramanmaraş, Afşin. He studied high school at Afşin Imam Hatip High School. In 2011, he completed his undergraduate studies at Sakarya Faculty of Theology. In 2012, he started his master's degree in calligraphy art at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University. He met with the art of calligraphy in Istanbul Fatih where he was studying Arabic in 2004.
Here, he took naskh lessons for 1.5 years from calligrapher Ahmet Arpacı, and sülüs for a short time. Later, with his departure from Istanbul, he had to take a break from the calligraphy training. In 2009, he met with calligrapher Davud Bektaş, who taught at the Süleymaniye library, and asked for lessons from him.
Upon his teacher's acceptance to the course, he took lessons from Kahraman Maraş through e-mail for the first 3 years and he studied Sülüs-Naskh and Rika for a short time by participating in the lessons from 2012.He continues to take lessons from Calligrapher Davud Bektaş at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University.
Awards:
‘‘Masters of the future 4’‘competition in the first place in Sülüs,
(Albaraka 4 - IRCICA 10) promotion in sülüs branch,
(Masters of the future 3 and Urfa Halil Ibrahim meetings) Sülüs-Naksh branch third place,
(T.C. Ministry of Culture and tourism 18th and 19th State Turkish decorative arts competition) Achievement Award
He was invited to the ’‘International Ramadan meeting’‘(2015-20166-2017) held in Dubai and he wrote the 10, 7 and 24. Parts of Holy Quran and received the mention award for his final participation.
