He was born in 1961 in Zonguldak. He completed his undergraduate education in Selcuk University Faculty of Theology in 1988. In 1995, he completed his master's degree in Ankara University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Basic Islamic Sciences, Hadith.
Between 1989 and 2015, he worked as a teacher in various schools. Between 2015-2019, he worked as a manager at Konya/Ereğli Credit and Dormitories Institution. Recep Yılmaz, who started to work as the Deputy Secretary General at our University in 2019, was appointed as the Head of Library Documentation Department in the same year. In 2020, he was appointed as the Deputy Faculty Secretary of our Faculty and he continues in this position.