He was born in the Sanjak of Rhodes (now an island of Greece, then a part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1883.

According to his granddaughter Feyhan Oran, when Rhodes was occupied by Italy he escaped to İzmir where he finished his highschool education.

Although he briefly served as an assistant in the faculty, he later on moved to Tavşanlı (a town in West Anatolia) to participate in the Turkish War of Independence.

In İzmir and Istanbul he published bulletins and in Mersin he wrote in a local newspaper as the chief editor.

[3] One of the dubious evidences he presented for this claim was that the Egyptian Amun priests were of Turkish race due their brachycephalic skull.