He has achieved outstanding success in the university entrance exams and has been entitled to the abroad scholarship of the Ministry of National Education. He received his BA in Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Indiana-Bloomington and MA in Theology from Harvard University. He received his PhD degree in Law from the University of London, SOAS, with a dissertation on the interaction of religion ‐ state ‐ society norms. He worked at the Ministry of National Education as a legal advisor. He served as a rapporteur judge at the Constitutional Court. He is still a faculty member at Ankara University of Social Sciences, Faculty of Law, Department of General Public Law.