[1][2] He graduated from Lycée Saint-Benoît d'Istanbul in 1968 and began his undergraduate studies at the Department of City and Regional Planning at Middle East Technical University.
[3] During his undergraduate education, he attended classes taught by philosophers including Teo Grünberg, Hüseyin Batuhan, and Cemal Yıldırım.
He graduated in 1972 and began his doctoral studies in the philosophy of language under the supervision of Peter Strawson at the University of Oxford.
[4] Upon his return to Turkey he became an important promoter of analytical philosophy in Turkey, a country traditionally almost entirely cultivated within a continental atmosphere, and became a faculty member in the philosophy department at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul for the rest of his life.
[5] He was twice a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin between 1985 and 1989, and served as a member of the steering committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP) between 1996 and 1999.