Mehmet Emre Battal was born in Istanbul, in 1980. He finished primary and secondary school in Kocaeli. While he was studying Labor Economics in Anadolu University, at the same time he continued to study in Radio, Television and Cinema Department of Istanbul University. He worked in the fields of digital advertising, social media management and advertising between 2005-2012 and co-directed several documentary films. He has been working as the director of NotaBene Publishing since 2012. Concurrently he works as an editor in various fields of publishing.