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Erkut Onart was born in Edremit, Turkey; he graduated from Galatasaray High-School and earned his undergraduate degree from Political Science Faculty of the University of Ankara. After completing his graduate studies at the University of Nancy, France and John Hopkins University in Italy, he joined Turkish diplomatic corps in 1964. Since then he's held various diplomatic positions in the UN in New York, USA' Accra, Ghana; Tabriz, Iran; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Manama, Bahrain; Geneva, Switzerland; Rotterdam, Netherlands. After retiring in 2002, Erkut Onart dedicated his time to traveling and photography.

Erkut Onart’s photography depicts the beauties of nature, the colors of diverse cultures and the details of everyday life. He had a large number of solo exhibits all over the globe, including major cities of Turkey as well as abroad: Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Dordrecht, Geneva, Luxembourg, Vilnius, Beirut, Aleppo, Rhodes, Batum, Odessa, Minsk to enumerate from an incomplete list.