After Haydarpaşa High School, he graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University.
This gave the MGK a privilege to limit the number of parties that would attend the coming parliamentary elections.
On 17 December 1983, following the 1983 general elections, he resigned and Erdal İnönü was reelected as the chairman.
In 1988 he acted as a moderator between Erdal İnönü and Deniz Baykal, the leader of intraparty opposition.
He died on 10 August 2008, in İzmit, and was laid to rest at the Karşıyaka Cemetery following the religious funeral service held at Kocatepe Mosque.