After working as a baker, banker, creator of the mutual organization of sponge fishermen paralysed after decompression problems, he moved to Istanbul.

As a writer directing the YAZKO council, he wrote on the social, economical and political problems of Turkey.

Erol Toy who used social realism, was known to the audience after the first publication of his İmparator (the imperor) novel in 1974.

Erol Toy who published short stories, novels, essays and critiques and several plays of which have been acted, received third place at the Ali Naci Karacan prize in 1962.

In May and June 2011, his play Pir Sultan Abdal, toured in Germany and in France by Ankara Birlik Tiyatrosu.