 Bedrettin Dalan was born in 1941 in Eskişehir, Turkey to a family which came from a village of Bayburt Province in eastern Anatolia to work for the Turkish State Railways.After finishing high school in Germencik, Aydin, where he lived with his parents and seven siblings, Dalan attended the Faculty of Maçka at the Istanbul Technical University, and graduated in 1963 with a degree in electrical engineering.In 1983, he joined Turgut Özal to found a center-right party, the Motherland Party (Anavatan Partisi, ANAP).