After completing his secondary and high-school education in Ankara, he studied at the Middle East Technical University Faculty of Scientific Literature Department of Chemistry before graduating from Hacettepe University Faculty of Education as an English teacher.
He later wrote in several magazines and newspapers before writing numerous poems and stories.
[3] In 2016, he caused controversy for suggesting that the Office of the Prime Minister would be occupied by a 'low profile' politician focusing only on technical issues after the resignation of Ahmet Davutoğlu.
He served as a member of the Turkish delegation at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in the 25th and 26th Parliaments, while also serving as a member of the Parliamentary Human Rights Investigatory Commission in the 26th Parliament.
[5] In December 2017, Ünal published an editorial in the Yeni Şafak listing the names of nine Turkish journalists in exile and seemed to suggest they would be targets for assassination, saying, “Better to get ready for intra-organization extrajudicial killings instead of carrying out operations over judicial theater.”[6][7]