Gölçek was born in the Karşıyaka district of İzmir. He graduated from the Department of Public Finance at Ankara University’s Faculty of Political Sciences in 2013, and completed his master’s thesis titled “Taxation in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century: An assassment on Temettuat Defterleri of Nigde Sanjak” at Dokuz Eylül University’s Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Finance, in 2016. In 2022, he earned his PhD with a dissertation titled “The risk of poverty in Türkiye: Determinants of child and elderly poverty” at Pamukkale University’s Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Finance. Since 2016, Gölçek has been working as a Dr. Research Assistant in the Department of Public Finance at Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences.