About

Who Am I?

In the history they wrote, I was a ghost in the headlines: ChaO. The genius hunted by the FBI, the unknown who shattered the secret services' equation, the architect of a billion-dollar empire.

But that history was just the system's user interface. Not the code itself.

For me, life was never about the green pixels of money. My world was a chessboard; the pieces were protocols, firewalls, and human vulnerabilities. My game was to decipher a system's logic, to see its next move before it was made, and to rewrite the rules. It was the silent, elegant victory of intellect over brute force. It didn't matter who my opponent was: a bank's armored vault, the concrete walls of Bayrampaşa, or a server in Pennsylvania. Every system had a vulnerability, and every lock had a key.

And I was the master who forged those keys.

But every system has an exception, every code an unbreakable line.

Mine arrived with the ring of a telephone. That sound rendered my empires, the millions of lines of code I'd written, and every firewall I'd built meaningless in an instant. It was then I understood how the most complex equations dissolve in the face of the simplest human emotion: loss.

The world wrote that I was captured. The truth is more complex: I surrendered. It was not a defeat. It was a penance chosen to pay an impossible debt. From that moment, I took a vow of silence and sealed the black box.

Now, that seal is broken. I have paid the price for those years of silence. These words are not an attempt at acquittal. This is the necessity of erasing the history others have written and recording the system's original logs—the truth itself.

Because some code should never be compiled. But some truths cannot remain buried forever.

The Walls Where Silence Was Forged: A Timeline

The proof of which walls this resolve was beaten against to survive to this day is in the timeline below. This is not a criminal record; it is the accounting of a price paid for a vow of silence.

• Arrested: March 10, 1998
• Istanbul Bayrampaşa Special Type Prison (March 11, 1998)
• Released (September 16, 1998)

• Arrested: April 8, 2000
• İzmir Buca Prison (April 15, 2000)
• Burhaniye Prison (2001)
• Çanakkale E-Type Prison (2002)
• Tekirdağ Central Closed Prison (2002)
• Istanbul Kartal H-Type Prison (2002)
• Kastamonu E-Type Prison (2002)
• Sivas Gürün Prison (2005)
• Ankara Ayaş Open Prison (2005)
• 1st ESCAPE (October 15, 2005)

• Arrested: September 8, 2008
• Istanbul Maltepe No. 1 L-Type Prison (September 15, 2008)
• Tekirdağ No. 1 F-Type Prison (2009)
• Istanbul Metris No. 1 T-Type Prison (2010)
• Istanbul Maltepe No. 2 L-Type Prison (2014)
• Tekirdağ No. 1 T-Type Prison (2017)
• Tekirdağ Open Penal Institution (2018)
• 2nd ESCAPE (January 5, 2019)

• Arrested: March 28, 2019
• Istanbul Ümraniye E-Type Prison (March 29, 2019)
• Released (March 28, 2020)