While studying in the Military school of Medicine in Istanbul he was arrested by the Ottoman police for disobeying Abdülhamid II.

Although he was sentenced to be exiled to Fezzan (a part of current Libya) he was pardoned due to his poor health.

[2] After the First World War he was elected as the MP in General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire as a representative of Kastamonu Province.

But the Ottoman parliament was closed by the Allies of World War I and he traveled to Ankara to join the Turkish nationalists.

Although he participated in the Constituent Assembly of Turkey as the representative of the Republican Villagers Nation Party he didn't return to political life.