Orhan Miroglu spent his youth in Batman and Diyarbakır and following his graduation from the Diyarbakir Vocational School he was employed as a teacher for a year.[1] He was arrested in the aftermath of the coup d'état in 1980.[1] He was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for his involvement in the Socialist Party of Kurdistan [de].[1] He was released in 1988.[1] On the 20 September 1992, he was wounded during the assassination of Musa Anter,[2] which he says was carried out by the Turkish Gendarmerie's JITEM.[3]