Yağcılar graduated from Faculty of Traffic and Communications at the University of Sarajevo in 1984.
He had worked as a manager at the Kosovar transportation company Kosovatrans.
In April 2000, he was elected the president of KDTP (then Turkish Democratic Union).
Since 2008, he is the Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning of the Kosovo in the Hashim Thaçi government.
On 12 September 2010, Yağcılar was removed from his post as the chairman of KDTP.