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He was born in 1977 in Germany. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Istanbul. In 1996, he graduated from Istanbul University Vocational School of Social Sciences, Market Research and Advertising programme with the first place in the school. During the 28 February period, she had to transfer from Istanbul University Faculty of Literature Psychology Department to Near East University Psychology Department and graduated from there in 2002 with the first place. In 2024, she wrote her master's thesis titled "Archetypal Analysis of Female Characters and Feminine Figures in Turkish Mythology" at Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Department of Women's Studies, which was later published as a book, and she is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at the Department of Media and Communication Studies (Interdisciplinary). Akıcı has worked as a psychologist in private hospitals, special education rehabilitation centres and counselling centres for years after attending vocational training and certificate programs in various fields, especially psychotherapy training. Since 2017, she has been working as a lecturer at Aydın Adnan Menderes University in Aydın Vocational School Child Development programme. In addition to numerous poems and essays published in various literary journals such as Yedi İklim, Turkish Literature, Ayvakti, Cins, İzdiham, she has two books titled "Book of Hope, Depression" and "Archetypal Analysis of Female Characters and Feminine Figures in Turkish Mythology", translations, book chapters and articles written from an interdisciplinary perspective. Akıcı, who is the director of Aydın Adnan Menderes University Women and Family Studies Application and Research Centre, is the founding representative of KADEM Foundation Aydın Representative Office and the provincial responsible of Support to Education Platform. She has two children, Ali Kayra and Ömer Akad.