As a lawyer he was involved in cases dealing with human rights violations and torture.[3] He became a member of the board of the Van Bar Association in 2012 and between 2018 and 2022 he was its president.[4] As the president of the Van Bar Association he refused to attend a ceremony marking the beginning of a new judicial year in the Presidential Palace in 2019, together with the majority of the lawyers in Turkey[5] and took part in the march of lawyers against a change of the electoral system in Bar Associations in June 2020.[6] In October 2021, he defended the right of manifestation and opposed the ban on manifestations imposed after the failed attempted coup d'état in 2016.[7] In the parliamentary elections of May 2023, he was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, representing Van for the YSP.[8]