He was born in Adıyaman in 1975. He completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in Adıyaman. Between 1995-1999, he completed his undergraduate education at Selcuk University, Department of English Language Teaching. He worked as an English teacher at Adıyaman Anatolian Trade Vocational High School between 1999-2002. Until 2007 he worked as an English instructor at various faculties and schools of Balıkesir University. In 2007, he started to work as a lecturer at Adıyaman University, Vocational School of Social Sciences. He completed his master's degree in the department of English Language and Education at Çağ University between 2012-2014. He is married and has two children.