He was suspended from public service due to one of the messages he shared on social media during the State of Emergency (OHAL), which was declared following the 15 July 2016, coup attempt in Turkey. He was purged from public service with a decree-law (KHK) no. 679, dated 6 January 2017. He is also banned from leaving country. Only after elected a being a Member of Parliament in the Parliamentary Elections in June 2018 he was able to travel abroad.