Elected to the Chamber for Constanța County during the 2000 suffrage, he sat with the Ethnic Minority group, and served on the Committee for Budget, Finance and Banks, and on the Committee for Regulation. In late 2001, following the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City, he contended that Islamic fundamentalist groupings had attempted to infiltrate the UDTTMR and the Romanian Tatar community at large, but that the Union had rejected all collaboration.
In 2000, he was elected to the Chamber for ConstanÜa County and joined the Ethnic Minority group. He made a statement in late 2001 about Islamic fundamentalist groups' alleged attempts to infiltrate Romanian communities following the September 11 attacks, which were rejected by the Union.