[2] Songar graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Istanbul University in 1950 and completed his training in psychiatry in 1953.
[1][4] Following his graduation Songar joined his alma mater as a research assistant.
[3][4] Songar became a member of the conservative think thank called Thinkers Club (Turkish: Aydınlar Kulübü) in 1962 which was the precursor of the IH.
[7][8] He was also a member of the Association for the Expansion of Knowledge (Turkish: Ilim Yayma Cemiyeti) which publicized the Turkish–Islamic synthesis developed by the IH.
[6] Songar was the head of the Observation Specialization Department at the Forensic Medicine Institute and was also a member of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation's board of directors.
[2] Songar was a follower of the neo-spiritualism and was influenced from the views of Bedri Ruhselman, founder of the movement in Turkey.
[4] Songar argued that cybernetics was consistent with the Islamic worldview and that it could employed to reduce the radicalism in Turkish society.