He graduated from the Departmant of International Relations at Istanbul University in 2001. He obtained a M.A degree in 2006 and PhD degree in 2011 at the Departmant of the Middle Eastern Political History and International Relations, The Middle East Studies Institute, Marmara University. He worked as Middle East Expert at the İstanbul-based think tanks TACSS (TASAM) and BILGESAM from 2004 to 2011. His first book, Reform in Syria under Bashar Al-Assad (Beşşar Esad Suriyesi'nde Reform) was published in 2007. He interested in political and social sectarianism in the contemporary Lebanon and focused on the role of Maronites during the civil war in his Phd thesis.