Background
Genç was born in 1940 in Ramazanköy, a village in Nazımiye in Tunceli Province. Raised in a poor Alevi family, as a young man he spent summers with his father, Ali Genç, in Silahtarağa, Istanbul doing manual labor.
Genç was born in 1940 in Ramazanköy, a village in Nazımiye in Tunceli Province. Raised in a poor Alevi family, as a young man he spent summers with his father, Ali Genç, in Silahtarağa, Istanbul doing manual labor.
In 1966, he graduated from Ankara Financial and Commercial Science Academy (now the Economic and Managerial Sciences branch of Gazi University).
He was a successful student, and in 1960 he was accepted as a boarder at the Financial School in Ankara. However, when the school was closed for repairs, he had to continue his education at Tunceli High School for a time. Afterward he returned to the Financial School.
When he finished school, he began an internship at the Ministry of Finance and was appointed as a tax official in Bingöl.
In 1966 he was the only candidate to pass the State Council(citation required) (the highest Turkish administrative court) Examination He lived in Paris from 1974-1976.
He served in the State Council Enquiry Judgeship and the Office of the Attorney General. After the 1980 Turkish coup d"état, he left the State Council and was elected to the Tunceli City Council.
However, the his candidacy was rejected by the city council.
From 1983-1987 he served as a public accountants From 1993-1999 and between 2001-2002 he served as vice president of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. He joined the 2007 elections as an independent and was elected.
On June first, 2010, he returned to his former party, the Republican People"s Party, for which he was reelected in 2011.
In 1983 the newly returned Genç participated actively in party life and, deciding to go into politics, choose to run as an independent candidate from Tunceli. Afterward, in the Turkish general election, 2002, he ran under the True Path Party, and thus was not reelected to parliament.
He was elected a member of parliament for the Republican People"s Party in the 1987 and 1991 elections, for the True Path Party in the 1995 and 1999 elections, as an independent candidate in the 2007 elections, returning to the Republican People"s Party on 1 June 2010, for which he was reelected in the 2011 elections. After he was elected a member of parliament for four terms. He served as a member of parliament until the 2015 elections.