He was born to a Kurdish family in 1978 in a village in Kozluk, Batman and graduated from the Dicle University where he studied Mechanical engineering.
[3] As the head of the Diyarbakir branch of the DTP, he aimed for similar rights for the Kurds which the Scots, the Catalans or Basques have which are an official recognition as a people, a regional government and parliament.
[1] In 2008 he was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for terror related charges, with the court reasoning that he also stayed when the crowd began to show symbols of the PKK, a decision he appealed.
[5] During his electoral campaign towards the Mayorship of Batman he criticized the use of the Kurdish language by the Justice and Development Party (AKP).
[9] In a separate trial he was sentenced to two years imprisonment for having called the militants of the PKK "warriors for the Kurdish people in the mountains".