He was born in Ankara in 1968. He is a graduate of the Land Forces School of Communication (1986) and Land Forces Language School. He is married. He completed a significant part of his academic studies while assigned at the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK).  He was assigned abroad at NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, Directorate of Intelligence and Operations, based in Germany. During this period, he received his bachelor’s degree in Management and Political Sciences at the University of Maryland University College, and after returning Turkey, he earned a master’s degree and a doctoral degree at Bilkent University, Department of International Relations.

After having completed his compulsory service, he resigned from the Turkish Armed Forces where he served as a non-commissioned officer, and he worked as a Political and Economic Consultant in an Embassy, as the Head of the Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA), as a Deputy Undersecretary at the Office of the Prime Minister (in charge of foreign policy and international security), as well as serving as the Special Representative to the Prime Minister.

Parallel to these assignments, he worked as a Member of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, as a Member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations Development Cooperation Platform, as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Turkish-Kazakh University of Ahmet Yesevi, as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Yunus Emre Foundation and as a Member of the OYAK Board of Directors.

He engaged in academic studies in the fields of international security, international development and Turkish Foreign Policy. He also gave lectures, on a part-time basis, at the universities of Hacettepe and Bilkent on issues of international relations.

After having served as a Deputy Undersecretary of the MIT for a short while, he was appointed as the Undersecretary of the MIT on May 27, 2010.