 Capped by the Turkish National Basketball teams 243 times, he also captained Galatasaray for six years.Following his basketball career, he worked as the general manager of Ülkerspor for 8 years.In 2005, he became the general secretary of the Turkish Football Association under the presidency of Levent Bıçakçı and continued to serve in various roles under TFF presidents Haluk Ulusoy, Hasan Doğan, Mahmut Özgener and Mehmet Ali Aydınlar until January 2012.