[1] He entered the Turkish War College from which he was expelled with his fellow students after the failed coup d'état in 1963.
[1] The former schools principal Colonel Talat Aydemir was identified as one of the coup plotters.
[1] He then unsuccessfully pursued a career as a journalist at the nationalist newspaper Yeni Istanbul.
[1] Between 1964 and 1965 he supported the youth branch of the Republican Villagers Nation Party (CKMP) of Alparslan Türkeş.
[3] He travelled abroad, to Germany, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan[3] and also became an advisor to the Turkish presidents Süleyman Demirel and Turgut Özal.