I studied archaeology at Aegean University, and my master's thesis was on the cuneiform language of Urartian. I completed PhD in the Department of Linguistics at Ankara University with a thesis on Turkish-Kurdish language contact. I took part on an EU project, Approaches to Multilingual Schools in Europe (AMuSE) led by Prof. Dr. Jochen Rehbein. I currently work at Van Yuzuncu Yil University as an associate professor and do studies on Urartian texts, endangered languages, and language contact.