Serhan Poçan is a Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 mountaineer

Mountaineer

-Sports:*Mountaineering, the sport, hobby or profession of walking, hiking, trekking and climbing up mountains, also known as alpinism-University athletic teams and mascots:*Appalachian State Mountaineers, the athletic teams of Appalachian State University...

 and a summiter of Mount Everest

Mount Everest

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He was born on April 11, 1970 in Konya

Konya

Konya is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The metropolitan area in the entire Konya Province had a population of 1,036,027 as of 2010, making the city seventh most populous in Turkey.-Etymology:...

, Turkey. Serhan graduated from the Middle East Technical University

Middle East Technical University

Middle East Technical University is a public technical university located in Ankara, Turkey...

, Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

 with a BS

Bachelor of Science

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 degree in Mathematics. Currently, he is working as a software expert.

He was the leader of the first Turkish expedition to climb Mount Everest, a team of six men and four women, who all reached the summit. Serhan made the summit with five other members on the second attempt of the team on May 24, 2006.

He is married to Burçak Özoğlu

Burçak Özoglu Poçan

Burçak Poçan, née Özoğlu, is a female mountaineer and one of the first Turkish women who climbed over 8,000 m.Burçak was born on January 4, 1970 in Ankara...

, a mountaineer colleague of him, who was also on the peak of Mt. Everest along with him on the same day.