Who is Furkan Menekşe?

Monomotion Studio is the day business. Its site is bilingual, its contact address is in Beyoğlu, and nothing on it mentions Notion at all. Notion Türkiye sits beside that work as a separate property with its own domain, its own bulletin and its own events calendar, sharing only the copyright line at the bottom of the page. The arrangement explains a lot about how the site is built. It has the production values of an agency project, with proper section design and consistent Turkish typography, applied to material that most Notion communities publish as loose blog posts.

The centrepiece of notionturkiye.com is Notion101, a structured Turkish curriculum that runs from the ground up. It opens with what Notion is and how blocks behave, moves through the desktop, web and mobile apps, then covers writing and editing, columns, tables and headers, and how to set up and manage a workspace. From there it goes into databases, including creating them and working with views, filters and sorting. Later sections handle importing and exporting, connecting third-party apps, sharing and permissions for teams, the template gallery, account settings and privacy, and finally plans and billing. Somebody in Turkey who has never opened Notion can start at the first section and finish knowing the product, without reading a word of English.

The template page is small and specific. There is a year-end review and a new-year resolutions planner for goal setting, a class schedule for taking lecture notes, and a syllabus template built for sharing course notes and curriculum with students. There is a trip planner for building routes and holding reservations, and a vegan nutrition tracker for shaping a diet and its routines. These read as templates made because someone wanted them, then shared, and they sit alongside a forum and a monthly bulletin that give Turkish-speaking users somewhere to ask questions in their own language. The homepage also demonstrates five working use cases, covering task performance, financial tracking, content planning, project management and building a CRM.

Notion Türkiye Buluşması was held at Astrolabe Coffee in Beyoğlu, listed on Luma with two hosts: Monomotion Studio and Notion Türkiye. Turning an online resource into a physical meetup is the harder half of running a national Notion community, and it is the half most sites never attempt. The website is still under maintenance, with a 2025 copyright line and current pages for Notion AI and Notion Calendar, so the reference has kept pace with the product. His own attention has widened since: the Instagram bio that identifies him with Monomotion now places him between London and Istanbul and adds Vidration.ai and Army Index as ventures he founded. His Medium writing, in Turkish, predates all of it and covers personal branding, daily vlogs and running a YouTube channel from a phone.