Background
Born in Emirdağ (Turkey), he came in Belgium with his mother in 1975, his father had earlier migrated to France in 1969, then to Belgium in 1972.
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He also studied education at the Ghent University.
Career
He went back to Turkey to study at the Eskişehir İmam Hatip school (vocational high school for would-be imams) and came back in Belgium as an imam and religion teacher paid by the official Turkish Diyanet. On 12 July 2003 he was sworn in at the Belgian Chamber of Representatives as a substitute to the elected SP.A Member of Parliament Freya Van Den Bossche, who became a minister. He was candidate at the next federal elections in 2007 on the Senate list and was not elected.
During his term as a Belgian Member of Parliament, he went back to Turkey in April 2005 for a few weeks to make his shortened (for emigrants) military service.
When this was made public, there was a small controversy about the loyalty of dual citizens towards the Belgian State. When he was informed that he would - as in 2007 - not be put on an eligible place on the SP.A list for the 2010 federal elections he affiliated himself to the LDD and was put on the third place of that list for the West Flanders electoral circle.
In April 2011, he was officially announced as fourth candidate on the list of the Islamic conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) for the upcoming (12 June 2011) parliamentary elections in Turkey in the Eskişehir Province.
