Our Veterinary Team

Pınar Yalım Külekçi

Veterinary Physician

Pınar Yalım Külekçi graduated from Istanbul University Veterinary Faculty in 2001. After graduation, she worked in the medical sector for 1.5 years, but wasn’t happy as she loved medicine. So she left her job, gained experience though an internship in Istanbul clinics for 3 years, and established the Clubvet Veterinary Polyclinic with her husband Gültekin at the end of 2004. Since its establishment, they have developed themselves both professionally and clinically and laid the foundations of today’s Clubvet Animal Hospital. During this time, they had three daughters, Zeynep, Zeren and Beren. Apart from the stray animals they keep in the Hospital, they also have two cats named Aslan and Fllyp in their home, and a dog named Kahve that they rescued from the street.

Ethem Mutlu Temizel

Professor

Professor Ethem Mutlu Temizel, completed his primary and secondary education in the Soma district of Manisa, graduating from Bursa Uludağ University Veterinary Faculty in 2000. After completing his doctorate education in Bursa Department of Internal Medicine from Uludağ University Institute of Health Sciences in 2005 where he worked as Assistant Professor till 2011. In 2012 he was awared with the title, Associate Professor. In 2013-2015, he worked as an invited lecturer at Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, taking part in Educational activities at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Near East University for half a term in 2015-2016. Professor Temizel, who has numerous scientific studies and projects in national and international journals, received the title of Professor in December 2020. He is currently working as a faculty member and head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Bursa Uludag University.

Muhammed Güney

Veterinary Physician

Muhammet Güney was born in Sivas Cumhuriyet in 1992 and moved to Istanbul in 2017. After completing his primary and secondary education in Istanbul, he was was accepted into the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Cumhuriyet University in 2011. After graduation, he worked on poultry health and breeding for 1.5 years. He joined the Clubvet family in June 2018.

Muhammed Güney interests include nature sports, while being an avid mountain biker. He has also been awarded with a disaster volunteer certificate, issued by AFAD.

He attends various conferences, seminars and training activities organized in order to increase its professional knowledge and skills and to keep itself up to date with new and current veterinary standards and practices. In this regard, he participated in many activities organized by the Small Animal Medicine Association, the Clinician Veterinarians Association and the Istanbul Chamber of Veterinarians. Muhammed Güney also looks afet a stray cat, whom he named Sürmeli.

Fırat Tan

Veterinary Physician

Fırat Tan has been a veterinary physician with Clubvet since 2019. He graduated from Çekmeköy Mehmetçik High School in 2010, was offered a place to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Kafkas University in 2011 and completed his education in 2017. Soft tissue surgery and ophthalmology are among the areas of interest of Fırat Tan, who has a master’s degree in surgery. His hobbies include playing football, learning to play new instruments, and camping. He has a cat and three turtle companions at home.

Hüseyin Burak

Veterinary Physician

Hüseyin Burak, has been working with us as a Veterinary Physician since March 2021. Graduating from Foça Reha Midilli Anatolian High School and Uludağ University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, he continued his veterinary education at Aristotle University (Greece) as an exchange student in 2019. He joined Uludağ University Mountaineering Club in 2016 and enjoys climbing. He has a cat named Meru and a dog named Shiva, with interests in behavioral disorders and clinical psychology.

Rabia Ağar

Veterinary Physician

He was born in 1996 in Kadıköy. Since her childhood, has always loved animals and decided early on to become a veterinary physician. She graduated from Selimiye Agriculture Anatolian High School under the Animal Health Department in 2014. Rabia Ağar, graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 2021, and joined the Clubvet family in July.
Her interests and hobbies are art, and she loves also loves to read.

Aleyna Keskin

Veterinary Physician

Aleyna Keskin, one of our veterinary physicians, applied to our clinic for the first time in 2019 to do her internship. She did his summer internships in our hospital for 2 years and after completing her education, started to work in our hospital as of 2021. She graduated from Mustafa Saffet Anatolian High School (2012-2013), Private Final High School (2014-2015) and Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (2016-2021). She played for professionally for the Girls’ Volleyball Team at Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine for 5 years. In her spare time, he enjoys reading and traveling. She has a dog named Kahve and a cat named Eyşan, has a thesis and an article on the subject of Feline Calicivirus.

Furkan Kerem Özyurt

Veterinary Physician

Furkan Kerem Özyurt, is one of out one of our veterinary physicians, who has been working with us since July 2021. He graduated from Çaycuma Anatolian Teacher High School and Fırat University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. He was an active football referee between 2013-2020. He is also a licensed chess player. He is also interested in the field of exotic veterinary diseases.

Ali Caner

Veterinary Physician

I was born in Malatya on 15.02.1997. I studied at primary school, middle school, turkish aviation institution, gazi primary school. I finished sadiye unsalan high school. He graduated from the Veterinary Faculty of Fırat University in 2021.

Ekin Avşar

Veterinary Technician

Ekin Avşar completed her high school education at Asiye Ağaoğlu Anatolian High School and completed his associate degree at Uludağ University and earned the title of Veterinary Health Technician.

He works in many fields, especially in intensive care unit witin our hospital. Today he utilizes his knowledge from the many years of loving animals, enabling him to practice his profession with passion. Every living thing that he contributes to in his treatment and helps helps him appriciate his life and his career everyday.

Serkan Özen

Veterinary Technician

Serkan Özen graduated from Üsküdar Selimiye Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School in 2019 and entered his professional life directly after completing his high school education. He has received all his internships and experience from the pet industry, and became a member of the Clubvet family in 2020. In our hospital, he continues his work diligently in vaccine follow-up, drug follow-up, examination assistant and laboratory staff. He who grew up with a passion for football, continues to play football at whenever he can and continues to engage in social activities such as professional skating, cycling touring and swimming. His love for animals began since his childhood, and he’s dedicated to creating a happy, healthy and good living comfort for his patients and to strengthening the bond between people and animals.

Halil İbrahim Üstün

Veterinary Technician

Halil İbrahim Üstün was born on 15.07.1999 in Istanbul. He graduated from high school in 2018, with a focus on science. He started off at university under the dental prosthesis department, but soon realized that the work environment we call dental prosthesis was not for him, so he decided to refocus career outlook. He started working at pet shop as he loved animals. But soon felt this was insufficient, so began his his second university degree, placed at Istanbul University, Veterinary Laboratory Department in order to improve knowledge for pet care. While trying to improve himself he met and became part of the Clubvet family. “I believe that I will reach my dreams with a very sincere business environment on this road that I follow step by step in pursuit of my dreams.”

Elif Özgüner

Veterinary Technician

Elif Özgüner graduated from the Department of Geography of Sakarya University, but in order to get a bachelor’s degree, she registered in “Business and Veterinary Health” with the right to pass without examination to her undergraduate education. At the same time, she worked voluntarily in Üsküdar Municipality Little Friends Clinic. Afterwards, Elif Özgüner, who now had 7 months of experience in Vetüsküdar Veterinary Clinic, joined Clubvet Animal Hospital in April 2021. She continues her career with Clubvet as an intensive care nurse.

Gökhan Lafcı

Veterinary Technician

Selimiye Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School (2019) Veterinary Health Technician Gökhan Lafcı was born in 2001 in Samsun. He graduated from Üsküdar Selimiye Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School in 2019. With his assertiveness and unique personality, he atteneded at Selimiye Veterinary Health High School and was introduced to the Clubvet family with the advice of his teachers. In particular, Gökhan Lafcı, who has a strong dialogue and good customer relations, chooses to develop himself further in this field. In addition to this, he carries out the duties of vaccination follow-up, drug follow-up and examination assistant diligently in our hospital. He continues with his education, and is now in his second year in the Laboratory at Veterinary Health Department of Istanbul University. He is currently still a grade student. Gökhan Lafcı has been involved with animals from a young age. He has three cats named RAGNAR, HÜRREM and TÜRKAN after him.

Sena Can

Consultant

He was born in Istanbul. He graduated from Kocaeli University MYO Mechanical and Anadolu University Occupational Health and Safety departments. She has a cat named Badem and has been working as a volunteer for stray animals for many years. She has been the IBB Local Animal Protection officer for the over a year.

Ünal Kaymaz

Consultant

Ünal Kaymaz joined the Clubvet family in 2019. He continues to work in the Clubvet family in patient admissions security technical staff. He has 1 cat, 2 budgerigars and fish. He has made it a principle to take part in various social responsibility projects and regularly helps to feed stray animals. He believes that the basis of human existence are animals and that they should be entitled to the same quality of life as people.

Betül Bayav

Accounting

Betül Bayav was born in Istanbul in 1982, has been working as an accountant at Clubvet for the last 8 years in her 20-year working career. She enjoys theater, reading, hiking and has a deep love for animals. Betül Bayav is both a good listener and motivates the Clubvet atmosphere with her outgoing, pleasant persona.

Abdullah Özer

E-Commerce

Born in Kadıköy in 1999, Evliya Çelebi graduated from the Informatics Department of Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School. He completed his high school internship at LG Technical Service and completed his internship with his successful and disciplined work in the internship, beginning his business career there. After working here for a while, he decieded return to education and graduated from Doğuş University Computer Programming Department. Abdullah Özer excels with telephone and computer equipment. He is proficient in Office programs and has first-level knowledge in C# and C++ programming languages as well as HTML markup language.

Abdullah Özer primarily deals with e-commerce, web design and social media under our Petshopum brand. In addition to his main job, he also deals with hardware and software problems in the company. He also devotes time to sports, regularly playing football and basketball. Mr. Özer is a licensed chess player and participates in activities such as swimming and cycling tours.