His father, Rıfat, from the Aydın Province (west Turkey), was a civil servant and a Minister of Finance in the Ottoman Empire.

During his father's various service places, he was born in Baghdad, graduated from the junior high school in Salonika (now Thessaloniki).

After the Occupation of Constantinople by the Allies of World War I, he began serving for the newly founded Turkey.

[1] He went into politics and was elected as the Republican People's Party deputy from Gaziantep Province.

After politics, he resumed his diplomatic mission and was appointed the ambassador to France and then Portugal.