Halil Hâlid was born in 1869 in Ankara into a religious family in a village near the coast of the Black Sea.
[2] He attended high school in Ankara and then moved to Istanbul where he studied for while in a Medrese beside the Beyazit Mosque.
[5] Following the Young Turk revolution of 1908, he visited Istanbul for several times[6] and began to write for the Servet-i Fünun around 1909.
[7] In 1904 he travelled to Algeria, then a French colony to take part in the Congress of the Orientalists on behalf of the University of Cambridge.
[6] He was elected to the Ottoman Parliament in 1912 for Ankara and was involved in the discussions in passing the primary education law.
[9] The women services included providing the civil population in lessons in cooking, agriculture, mathematics and painting.
[12] He attended the Socialist International in Bern in 1919 where he presented the British delegation an exemplar of the A Study in English Turcophobia.