Mustafa Yeşil started his high school education in Çanakkale, Turkey in 1974. After finished his high school in 1981 he went to Marmara University Theology Faculty in Istanbul and graduated in 1985. Until he started MA program in İzmir, Dokuz Eylül University, he taught religious studies in high schools of various cities as a RE teacher for six years. In 1992, he completed his MA in social studies. Then he started to work in different cities as the district manager of Zaman newspaper which is the highest circulated newspaper of Turkey. In 2003, he went to the U.K. as a overseas representative of Zaman newspaper. He had also been appointed by the board as chairman of World Media Group Company in Frankfurt, Germany. He carried on this duty for two years. While he was in London, he had an active role in organizing community cohesion activities of a famous charity called, The Dialogue Society.

At the same time, he was the founder of a think-tank organization called, London Social Studies Centre. In addition, he was leading the Turkish community in order to establish many societies and foundations on the subject of education and dialogue in the U.K. such as Koza Women Society, Axis Education Trust, Fellowship Dialogue Society, and Dialogue Society for Scotland.

In addition to this, he is the founder of the first Turkish schools in the U.K. called Wisdom Primary and Secondary School and Coral Girls’ College.

Mustafa Yeşil is currently the president of the Journalists and Writers Foundation and he is one of the salient and noticeable fruits of the Gülen Movement. He is married and father of three children.