Born in the village of Gelinkaya, Miroğlu spent his youth in Batman and Diyarbakır and following his graduation from the Diyarbakir Vocational School he was employed as a teacher for a year. He was arrested in the aftermath of the coup d'état in 1980. He was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for his involvement in the . He was released in 1988. On the 20 September 1992, he was wounded during the assassination of Musa Anter, which he says was carried out by the Turkish Gendarmerie's JITEM.Hurriyet Daily News, 5 October 2010, Turkish enigma to remain one more mystery Miroğlu speaks native level Turkish, advanced level of Kurdish and Arabic, and an intermediate level of English. His mother knew Arabic and Kurdish.
