Having completed his medical school and ophthalmology training at Ankara University Medical School and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston-TX, he did observerships at Cullen Eye Institute, Houston TX and Duke University, Durham NC, followed by a clinical and research fellowship with Jorge L. Alio, MD, PhD at Instituto Oftalmologico Alicante, in Spain, and a 2-year clinical cornea&refractive surgery anterior segment fellowship at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas with Texas Medical Licence. He served as the coordinator of international student office at Ankara University.