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He is the cousin of writer Sabahattin Eyüboğlu and poet and painter Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu. He graduated from Istanbul Vefa High School (1948) and Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Philosophy (1953). He also studied in the departments of Classical Philology and History. He worked as a philosophy and literature teacher for a while.
After leaving teaching, he took up work as a translator and freelance writer. He concentrated his studies on Anatolian civilization, folklore assets and Turkish language research. He made his first research and compilation studies on Black Sea folklore and folk literature. His first articles on folklore of this kind were published in the Turkish Folklore Research journal (1948-58). His research, review articles, criticisms and compilations since 1958 were published in magazines and newspapers such as Yelken, Yeni Ufuklar, Türk Dili, Dünya, Soyut, Varlık, Cumhuriyet, Yansıma, Kıyı. He compiled the poems written for Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror, from his reign to the present day, and published them in an anthology called "Conqueror in Epics" in 1953. He studied Divan literature and researched and published various subjects covered in Divan poetry. His research on Anatolian culture and his translations from languages such as German, Latin, Arabic and Persian were met with interest. Seven Suspended poets and Hz. He translated Ali's poems into Turkish. He was the recipient of the Literary Association Honorary Award Gold Medal.