He is the son of Ayşe Hanım and weaver Ahmet Nuri Özyalçıner.
He was born and raised in Istanbul to a family with Bosniak roots.
He worked more than 20 years as a proofreader at the Cumhuriyet newspaper.
[3] A compilation of the first four-story books by the author, thinking of the youth, was published by Gendaş Publications in 1991 with the title Taş.
The author's own selected stories from the books from Panayır till Sağanak was published by Dünya Publications in 2003.