Borned in 1986 in Vancouver. Following graduation from American Collegiate Insitute, received undergraduate education in Political Science at Sabancı University and graduate education at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg. Holds a Ph.D. from Istanbul University and is currently conducting postdoctoral research at Princeton University. 

He is a professor, having taught courses on foreign policy and political history courses. Author of four books, has many academic articles and newspaper columns.